Wayward Reviews

A medieval fantasy adventure, where an unexpected group comes together to journey to an old city that is inhabited by angry unyielding gods.

Book Synopsis

Book Details

Pages: 290

Genre: Fantasy

Publisher: HarperVoyager / Illumicrate

Format: Hardback

Kissen kills gods for a living, and she enjoys it. That is until she finds a god she cannot kill: Skediceth, god of white lies, who is connected to a little noble girl on the run.

Elogast fought in the god war, and helped purge the city of a thousand shrines before laying down his sword. A mysterious request from the King sends him racing back to the city he destroyed.

On the way he meets a godkiller, a little girl and a littler god, who cannot find out about his quest.

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Review

* Non-Spoiler Review*

I do enjoy when you start reading a book with one expectation, only to be swept away by that being completely shattered (in a good way). Godkiller had been on my shelf for almost 18 months. It was from one of my Illumicrate subscriptions, and I confess, I was for some reason put off by the cover…

The first impression I had of this book was that it was going to be a slow burn, high fantasy story line, with heavy character building. Even though I do enjoy that type of Fantasy, I like my fantasy to have a medium pace – otherwise I need to be blown away by to story telling to want to hear every little detail about the world.

So it was to my surprise, that when I started reading Godkiller – not only was it well paced, but the characters were morally ambiguous, the world dark and gritty. With a splash of disability representation that was integrated spectacularly.

You follow three characters who are victims of the cruelty of the gods in this world. Their paths end up being intertwined as they all mutually aim to get to a city overrun by gods. Not to spoil the plot, there is an unexpected reason as to why two of the characters are going.

Along the way, they are faced with human challenges, demon and god upheavals – as well as character growth that aligned nicely with the plot. I also relished in the fact that the plot wasn’t too predictable, and made sense when you got to the main crescendo.

Overall, I am terribly pleased with this book. I am now on the hunt for the sequel in the same edition. Not sure if this will be a series, duo-logy or trilogy. But, hey ho, I hope the next one will be just as good.

Spice Rating: 2/6 – See my rating system here

Book Rating: 4/5