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I’m fairly sure I’d enjoy reading a shopping list written by this author. But in the context of much of his excellent writing I was a little disappointed by this novella.
It’s the follow up to Prosper's Demon which portrayed the life of an exorcist, and the professional familiarity that he could develop with the demons/devils he expelled from people, with wry humour and in the characteristic Parkeresque Medieval style world. In this novella roles are reversed and we see things from the point of view of the demons or devils! I could explain the plot in detail and you’d still be missing much of the content which is concerned with amusing theological musings on the relationship between good and evil.

Sounds a bit heavyweight but I’d say it was more in the style of Terry Pratchett than anything from a college philosophy department. Not an insult at all to the author, as many of his earlier works (under the Tom Holt name) were in that comedic style and Sir Terry is a literary saint as far as I’m concerned.
Much of the story considers the dependency on each other of the forces of good and evil - if you create light, you create darkness at the same time, etc. A jokey twist involves the possibility that they might actually have to cooperate for once in the face of a new problem.

In the context of much of the fantasy I read this novella was clever, amusing and entertaining but in comparison to the author’s other works, and even the preceding Prosper's Demon, I’m afraid it rates only a 3.5* for me�