Synopsis:
Kissen’s family were killed by zealots of a fire god. Now, she makes a living killing gods, and enjoys it. That is until she finds a god she cannot kill: Skedi, a god of white lies, has somehow bound himself to a young noble, and they are both on the run from unknown assassins.
Joined by a disillusioned knight on a secret quest, they must travel to the ruined city of Blenraden, where the last of the wild gods reside, to each beg a favour.
Pursued by demons, and in the midst of burgeoning civil war, they will all face a reckoning – something is rotting at the heart of their world, and only they can be the ones to stop it.
Review:
I had really high expectations for Godkiller that sadly were not met. I didn’t hate it, but it wasn’t quite what I was expecting.
My biggest issue was feeling like nothing was happening and not getting through the book very quickly. Godkiller was less than 300 pages long so I didn’t expect it to take as long as it did to read.
The opening chapter was super intense and fast paced, so I was expecting that to continue. Sadly not. This wasn’t helped by the fact the book has four POVs. I’m not a huge fan of multiple POV books as sometimes it feels like it stunts the story progress and that definitely happened here for me.
It sounds like I hated this book, but I really didn’t. I just don’t think fantasy books are doing it for me at the moment, so I need to take a break from them.
One area that I really loved was the disability representation. There are multiple characters with various disabilities and it was great that they weren’t portrayed as anything but strong, independent people.
Kissen and Inara were without a doubt my favourite. I wasn’t so keen on Elogast as he was a little too self righteous for my liking. But the bond Kissen and Inara develop throughout was wonderful.
The storyline was also interesting. I find books about gods pretty fascinating, especially when said gods are neither good nor bad. There’s a god for literally everything in Godkiller, the one you spend the most time with is the god of white lies. Which made for an interesting perspective as you never find out if what they think or say is true. I don’t know if this was an actual element of this book, but I like to think it was.
I bought the second instalment before I read Godkiller, so I may check it out at some point, but not anytime soon. If you’ve read the next book already, please let me know if it’s better than the first.
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