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The Shadow of the Gods

John Gwynne

4.16 AVERAGE

sgtkilliwiggles's review against another edition

5.0

adventurous dark emotional inspiring tense fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

frannieman's review

4.5

adventurous dark tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

abibliodragon's review against another edition

5.0

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I have no words other than ducking amazing.

cakepop_4's review against another edition

5.0

adventurous dark mysterious tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: No

ttay2x's review against another edition

4.0

adventurous dark emotional informative mysterious tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: No

miue's review against another edition

3.5

adventurous dark medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Plot

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

bunnieb's review

3.75

adventurous dark tense fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Plot

Strong character development: No

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: No

fuette's review against another edition

3.75

adventurous dark slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

jsmith495's review against another edition

5.0

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful mysterious sad tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Complicated

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

swampwitch71's review against another edition

4.0

adventurous challenging dark reflective medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Complicated

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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This is a really good book that I just didn’t enjoy. I liked parts of it, but I never really gave myself in to it. I especially liked the author’s very even hand talking about men and women. He was never making a point, he always talked about everyone equally. There’s no self consciousness about it, no agenda. They’re all just competent people. Women aren’t special when they’re warriors. Men aren’t special when they have emotions. I wish more authors had this skill.

That said, I HATED that the book doesn’t resolve at all, and given the nature of the quests, that is pretty challenging since I probably won’t listen to the next one.