Top critical review
3.0 out of 5 starsIt was ok
Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on June 25, 2014
I really wanted to like this one. I really like the series. Atticus, Oberon, and the bunch are pretty interesting charecters. I couldn't like this one as much because for some reason Atticus's charecter is changed greatly from what it once was. He was once a badass 2000 year old druid with legendary fighting skills and now he is taking on some nerdier trends. Since when did he play role playing games, video games of any sort, or not act accordingly to someone verbaly bashing him? He was introduced as a witty fighter with an edge, but for some reason he loses his backbone to his archdruid, someone he has far surpassed in knowledge and skill, and is gonna let him just trash talk him and ruin his image freely. The same archdruid that supposedly left him scarred forever? Didn't he kill and imprison a few godly folk for much lesser slights? And this archdruid... ok so he traveled 2000 years into the future from a past where, as is said from his own mouth, no one liked liked him nor him any other and now all of a sudden everyone likes him and he makes friends everywhere? All of a sudden he is a social butterfly when, to him at least, a few days previous he was a hated hermit with zero social skills. Overall, if you ignore all of my gripes the book was entertaining. I liked seeing the progression to what I'll assume is the final bout to come. From the looks of things Atticus will be fighting Loki after he finishes off that weird vamp thing or enlists him to his own side, Owen will be taking on Hel's dog and the vampire king, and Grainuelle will prolly cry a bit a then those tears will enrage her and she will furiously destroy Hel herself and probably fight Laksa too for her betrayal with her father. It's a pretty decent read if annoying at the sudden charecter changes and I still think the best work in this series was done in the first 4 books