Rent On a Pale Horse (Incarnations of Immortality, Bk. 1)

If you are a Piers Anthony fan I highly recommend this series. Piers is not a normal scifi/fantasy writer, but uses his books for a commentary on life, morals, politics, and many other things. If you read this book you need to read the series because the books are very interconnected. Zane shoots Death, and has to take his place. Satan sets up a plot in which Zane tries to avoid taking the soul of the women he loves, Luna, while figuring out the limits of his new abilites as Death. A very enjoyable story.

i liked his geoodessy series so much i decided to try another of his books. this wasn't as good, just ok. it's book one of the incarnations of immortality series. it's the future, where people use magic and science interchangably, sort of like living in wizard world in harry potter. the main guy accidentally kills death when he comes for him and he becomes death himself. then he has to learn how to take souls (sort of like dead like me, if you've seen that show) and also fight the devil. Like the show, he ends up living more now that he's dead. i'd skip this one.