A review by tgannon
Paternus by Dyrk Ashton

4.0

Urban Fantasy can be quite tricky to accomplish well in the age of surveillance when it is nearly impossible to hide any action. Can anything truly be secret in the age of the great Orwellian Eye? Dyrk Ashton tackles this question head-on with pizzaz, wonder, creativity, and a depth of research that becomes downright impressive. Set comfortably within the Hero’s Journey narrative framework, Ashton is not afraid to flip preconceptions about fantasy, mythology, and theology. Crescendoing the narrative stakes to a dizzying height, the reader is left thinking that if something magical really is hiding out in the great wide world, it is best that it stays hidden. Some secrets are meant to be kept.