I finally finished reading The Chronicle of the Underworld. It took me months because that tends to happen for anything that isn't a story. It's given me a bigger appreciation of Sideshow's Court of the Dead characters and statues. Not that I didn't already have a big one to begin with
Of all the characters, my appreciation of Death has increased the most. In terms of balance, the book puts forth Death as the greatest being across all realms but he's not without a remorseful past.