The long road

 So, finally finished Deadbeat Druid, the final book of David R. Slayton's Adam Binder Trilogy.

Now, when we left off, Vincente got pulled into the Underworld along with Adam's Great Grandfather, leaving Adam to seek out Death herself. In this volume, we get to spiral through hell, as Vic and Jodi (and new acquaintance Mel make their way from the Ebon Sea to what they hope is Adam, while Adam is spiraling down to hopefully find and recover Vic and Jodi and Mel as well as Grandpa. While the actual plot here doesn't matter as much, since it really boils down to everyone meeting in the middle followed by some twists that get resolved by the end, but I will say this vision of the migration of souls after death is actually kind of interesting. See, in an underworld not polluted by the living (of which we have 7, as Bobby and Vran are with Adam), souls journey down the spirals to the sea, losing their emotions, hurts, longings, etc to demons on the way down. (It's kind of a whole biome/ecosystem.) Problem being with Mel having arrived roughly a century before, many of the demons have gained some form of sentience, which means they're no longer fulfilling their function. Which leads to things like Sanctuary, where one of the "living demons" is saving souls not ready to move on from moving on, or a living hotel demon using Bobby Sr to draw in Adam and Bobby Jr. 

Really, the entire cosmology here is what ended up sucking me in, as did the appearance of Death's opposite number, and exactly what he represents.

It's a good read, although the stakes aren't exactly world altering, but they're extremely personal.

I'd be more than interested in reading more in this setting.