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A review by robinbridgefour
The Gods of Amyrantha by Jennifer Fallon
4.0
4.25 "Sometimes the best way to be rid of a stupid idea is to follow it through to its most absurd conclusion" stars
The Tide is coming back the Immortals are moving into their positions on the game board of the world. It is time to set up for the game to come and the human and Crasi better beware. Because when a Tide Lord is getting into position people will die, betrayals will abound and secrets kept for a thousand years will start to come to light.
I’m not sure why I’m so captivated by Fallon’s story telling. There is something about having multiple PoVs and so I as the reader knows many things the other characters do not. It is an interesting kind of pain to watch them muddle about and wonder when they are going to clue in. Plus there is just enough kept hidden that as a reader I’m surprised when certain facts come to light.
This is a series where I have favorite characters, characters I tolerate and then there are the ones I want to be ripped apart by a fluffle of rabid bunnies *cough* Jaxyn *cough* because I think that would be one of the more humiliating ways to die.
Still there is a lot happening and even though I see what some people are up to I still have no idea why but I’m pretty sure that it will be dangerous and deadly and some of the people ‘helping’ might end up being worse than the bad guys.
Yeah anytime someone wants to be god it never goes well for the mere mortals.
There is a damsel in distress, a duke in dire straights, an unrequited lover looking to be a savior. To that off with a cast of animal/human hybrids including a chameleon human hybrid who is the best spy ever, a cat that killed a bear with one slice and a dog named Warlock and you are in for some great intrigue and shenanigans. And then there are the immortals themselves; One wants to be a god, another wants to die and more still are getting ready to try and take over the world.
The only character that I totally loved in the first book who ended up being a slight disappointment in this one was Arkady. She was wonderful, smart and sassy in The Immortal Prince. But put her in a desert and it seems that the heat has gotten to her and killed off most of her brain cells. She gives away secrets, trusts the wrong people and makes a lot of mistakes. But she smartened up near the end even if it was a little to late and is now going to have to pay some severe consequences. Here is hoping that her Knight in Shining armor finds her sooner rather than later. And I personally am hoping that Knight is Declan and not Cayal.
Still after the ending I couldn’t wait to jump into the next story since I’m pretty sure that all the sh*t is about to hit the fan and I can’t wait to see where all the pieces fall.
The Tide is coming back the Immortals are moving into their positions on the game board of the world. It is time to set up for the game to come and the human and Crasi better beware. Because when a Tide Lord is getting into position people will die, betrayals will abound and secrets kept for a thousand years will start to come to light.
Do we always spend hundreds of years planning and scheming and kidding ourselves we have everything under control, and then the Tide comes back and we discover how badly we’ve been deluded?
I’m not sure why I’m so captivated by Fallon’s story telling. There is something about having multiple PoVs and so I as the reader knows many things the other characters do not. It is an interesting kind of pain to watch them muddle about and wonder when they are going to clue in. Plus there is just enough kept hidden that as a reader I’m surprised when certain facts come to light.
This is a series where I have favorite characters, characters I tolerate and then there are the ones I want to be ripped apart by a fluffle of rabid bunnies *cough* Jaxyn *cough* because I think that would be one of the more humiliating ways to die.
Still there is a lot happening and even though I see what some people are up to I still have no idea why but I’m pretty sure that it will be dangerous and deadly and some of the people ‘helping’ might end up being worse than the bad guys.
“Would you believe I’m motivated by idle curiosity?”
“Not for a moment. What do you intend to get out of this, Lukys, other than my death?”
“Very well,” the older man replied after a moment. “I want to be God.”
“I thought we’d decided immortals who want to be God were a really bad idea, Lukys.”
“Did we?”
Cayal nodded. “The name Kentravyon leaps to mind.”
“Ah, but there’s a difference between me and that lunatic,” Lukys said, sitting on the edge of the railing. “I want to be God, Kentravyon thought he was God.”
Yeah anytime someone wants to be god it never goes well for the mere mortals.
There is a damsel in distress, a duke in dire straights, an unrequited lover looking to be a savior. To that off with a cast of animal/human hybrids including a chameleon human hybrid who is the best spy ever, a cat that killed a bear with one slice and a dog named Warlock and you are in for some great intrigue and shenanigans. And then there are the immortals themselves; One wants to be a god, another wants to die and more still are getting ready to try and take over the world.
The only character that I totally loved in the first book who ended up being a slight disappointment in this one was Arkady. She was wonderful, smart and sassy in The Immortal Prince. But put her in a desert and it seems that the heat has gotten to her and killed off most of her brain cells. She gives away secrets, trusts the wrong people and makes a lot of mistakes. But she smartened up near the end even if it was a little to late and is now going to have to pay some severe consequences. Here is hoping that her Knight in Shining armor finds her sooner rather than later. And I personally am hoping that Knight is Declan and not Cayal.
Still after the ending I couldn’t wait to jump into the next story since I’m pretty sure that all the sh*t is about to hit the fan and I can’t wait to see where all the pieces fall.