Booklog 15/2020: Kevin Hearne: Hammered – Iron Druid #3

I really like the Iron Druid books, featuring Atticus, an ancient druid who looks about nineteen and runs a bookstore in Tempe Arizona. He has a quirky Irish Wolfhound called Oberon, with whom he has a telepathic link, and an apprentice Druid called Granuaile.

Anyhow, this time Atticus is in trouble after making a couple of promises in exchange for help in the previous book. Both involve trips to Asgard. The first, to retrieve a golden apple, is bad enough, and leads to unintended fatalities. The second promise, to his vampire lawyer friend, Leif, is a game changer. He's promised that he will help Leif kill the Norse god Thor. Thor, apparently is a dangerous and destructive arse, and could do with a good killing, so Atticus Leif and Gunnar the werewolf end up with a team, a Russian thunder god, a Finnish magician and a Chinese immortal, all with good reasons to want Thor dead. But you can't go up against one Norse god without going up against the whole pantheon. There's a lot of collateral damage to the denizens of Asgard and Atticus is warned twice that killing Thor will have extremely bad repercussions, but unfortunately the team members are determined to finish the job

I confess I didn't enjoy this book as much as the first two, and I was trying to work out why. Less Oberon, maybe? In places the pacing seems a little slow, and I didn't particularly connect with the new characters in the god-killing team, especially when there's a long break while everyone tells their own story. In previous books Atticus has been defending himself against beings who want him dead, maybe that's why it didn't feel quite right that this time he was going after someone (a god, no less) without a personal grudge. He knows it's not right, but he's made a promise to a friend and he's going to keep it. I presume the next book will deal with the fallout from Atticus and company's trip to Asgard.

Booklog 16/2020: Jess Michaels: A Reckless Runaway - Shelley Sisters #2

I had this from Netgalley in return for a review, so I haven't read the first book in the Shelley Sisters sequence. I confess there were times when I wanted to throw this against the wall because the heroine, Anne Shelley is, at times, too stupid to live, and the plot is unlikely, except, of course, the giveaway is in the title. She's reckless… in the extreme. She runs away with Ellis Maitland, a man she barely knows, to get out of the arranged marriage (to an earl) that her father is forcing her into. Ellis, a con man, hands her off to his cousin, Rook, who after years of criminality is trying to get out of the life. The obvious happens, of course.

There's not much sense of time or place. It reads like a Regency romance without the 'manners'. Of course, everything is fine in the end for a limited  definition of fine because her love interest is – shall we say – unusual for a Regency hero. Yes, I enjoyed this, but I suspect it's not a book that will live long in my memory.

 

 

 

 

 

 

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