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Food of the Gods by Cassandra Khaw

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I was excited for this book because the concept is fantastic. I'm a sucker for cool gods, interesting mythologies, and pantheons I'm not familiar with - and Malaysian beliefs, East Asian spirits, and the Ten Chinese Hells definitely fit that bill. I thought the story was going to involve a lot of mythological bureaucracy and navigating both the real world and the world of gods and ghouls to solve a high-stakes murder. But Rupert fell into the category of urban fantasy protagonists who is trying to hard to have a voice and personality and ends up throwing themselves face-first into "most irritating person to ever irritate" territory. The mythology was sparse, the world was the barest sketch, and other characters move in and out of the story without introduction. What you do get a lot of is Rupert getting bitten by things so they can drink his blood and Rupert complaining about how this all sucks and he didn't want to do any of it and isn't his entire life just the worst. I really wanted to like the story, but Rupert just kept getting in the way.

A note on the series, because this frustrates me:

This book seems to be listed everywhere as the fourth book of the Gods & Monsters series. However, what exactly the rest of the series consists of is unclear.

  • Hoopla, where I checked it out from my library, lists Unclean Spirits by Chuck Wendig as the first book in the series but has no listing for books two or three.
  • The StoryGraph lists The Last Supper Before Ragnarok by Cassandra Khaw as book five, but no listing for books 1-3.
  • Goodreads lists it as a trilogy, the two individual novellas that make up thisbook as book one and two and The Last Supper Before Ragnarok as book 3.
  • FictionDB lists the series as two books long, one of the novellas making up this book as book one and Immortal Combat by Cassandra Khaw as book two. Immortal Combat doesn't seem to exist anywhere outside of FictionDB.
  • Simon & Schuster lists the series with Unclean Spirits as book one, Myth Breaker by Stephen Blackmore as book two, Snake Eyes by Hillary Monahan as book three, and The Last Supper Before Ragnarok as book five - no book four listed, Food of the Gods isn't included, and Myth Breaker and Snake Eyes look like they don't even belong in the series.

In short, I have no clue what's going on with the alleged "Gods & Monsters" series, and I don't think anyone else does either. 
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