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adventurous
mysterious
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
Re-read via Audible: Having listened to several audio books where the narrators had minor accents, I was taken aback by the very heavy American accent on starting this and it was initially off-putting. I tend to listen to books at 1.4 speed plus, and had to put it down to a lower speed in order to understand what was being said. The narration also started off fairly monotone. Thankfully, both my comprehension of the accent increased the longer I listened and the narrator seemed to get into the swing of things, so there was more emotion behind it.
I didn't know what to think when I started Paternus; I was certainly a little confused and disoriented by differing viewpoints and terms of reference. By the end though, I was praying there was already a sequel in this series and sulked when I realised there wasn't. This is an absolute gem of a debut novel and is one I'd happily recommend to fans of fantasy, mythology and tales of Gods, demons and other things that nobody sane really believes in, do they?
The interspersed mythology, reality, Gods and minions works strangely well, perhaps because at least to a point even the Gods are partially bound by the laws of reality. Even Gods can die. Beings that are hundreds of thousand, millions and billions of years old, to whom the human life span is a mere breath in the wind, are undeniably...mortal... if enough strength and the right arm is used. Even Gods can bleed, hurt and die. Particularly at the hands of other Gods.
And yet into this tale of drama most high steps a seemingly normal young girl, an orphan working at the local hospital and living with her uncle. And when chaos and destruction turns her once normal life into something she couldn't have imagined in the darkest nightmares, she is drawn into a web of power struggles and bigotry. But not human bigotry. Bigotry against all humans. Trying to save an elderly dementia patient who has taken a shine to her from murderous creatures with power she hadn't imagined leads her further into the mess that these Godlings are making of the world.
All in all, I really enjoyed this novel and will keep my eye out for more from this author.
I didn't know what to think when I started Paternus; I was certainly a little confused and disoriented by differing viewpoints and terms of reference. By the end though, I was praying there was already a sequel in this series and sulked when I realised there wasn't. This is an absolute gem of a debut novel and is one I'd happily recommend to fans of fantasy, mythology and tales of Gods, demons and other things that nobody sane really believes in, do they?
The interspersed mythology, reality, Gods and minions works strangely well, perhaps because at least to a point even the Gods are partially bound by the laws of reality. Even Gods can die. Beings that are hundreds of thousand, millions and billions of years old, to whom the human life span is a mere breath in the wind, are undeniably...mortal... if enough strength and the right arm is used. Even Gods can bleed, hurt and die. Particularly at the hands of other Gods.
And yet into this tale of drama most high steps a seemingly normal young girl, an orphan working at the local hospital and living with her uncle. And when chaos and destruction turns her once normal life into something she couldn't have imagined in the darkest nightmares, she is drawn into a web of power struggles and bigotry. But not human bigotry. Bigotry against all humans. Trying to save an elderly dementia patient who has taken a shine to her from murderous creatures with power she hadn't imagined leads her further into the mess that these Godlings are making of the world.
All in all, I really enjoyed this novel and will keep my eye out for more from this author.