With a sly blend of fantasy, humor, and paranormal adventure, Kevin Hearne has established a reputation as the trickster god of action-packed mash-ups. His signature creation, Atticus O’Sullivan, is a folk hero for the twenty-first century, battling legendary beasts, shadowy mystics, and demonic demigods from around the world. Now this addictive eBook bundle brings together the first six novels of The Iron Druid Chronicles (with bonus novellas and short stories) in one supersized dose of genre-smashing
HOUNDED HEXED HAMMERED TRICKED TWO RAVENS AND ONE CROW (NOVELLA) TRAPPED HUNTED GRIMOIRE OF THE LAMB (NOVELLA) Also includes the short stories “Clan Rathskeller” and “Kaibab Unbound,” as well as an excerpt from the seventh novel in The Iron Druid Chronicles, Shattered!
Atticus O’Sullivan, last of the Druids, lives peacefully in Arizona, running an occult bookshop and shape-shifting in his spare time to hunt with his Irish wolfhound. His neighbors and customers think that this handsome, tattooed Irish dude is about twenty-one years old—when in actuality, he’s twenty-one centuries old. Not to He draws his power from the earth, possesses a sharp wit, and wields an even sharper magical sword known as Fragarach, the Answerer.
Unfortunately, a very angry Celtic god wants that sword, and he’s hounded Atticus for centuries. Now the determined deity has tracked him down, and Atticus will need all his power—plus the help of a seductive goddess of death, his vampire and werewolf team of attorneys, a bartender possessed by a Hindu witch, and some good old-fashioned luck of the Irish—to kick some Celtic arse and deliver himself from evil.
Praise for Kevin Hearne and The Iron Druid Chronicles
“Neil Gaiman’s American Gods meets Jim Butcher’s Harry Dresden.”—SFFWorld
“[The Iron Druid books] are clever, fast paced and a good escape.”—Jason Weisberger, Boing Boing
“Celtic mythology and an ancient Druid with modern attitude mix it up in the Arizona desert in this witty new fantasy series.”—Kelly Meding, author of Tempest
“[Atticus is] a strong modern hero with a long history and the wit to survive in the twenty-first century. . . . A snappy narrative voice.”—Library Journal, on Hounded “Outrageously fun.”—The Plain Dealer, on Hounded “Superb . . . plenty of quips and zap-pow-bang fighting.”—Publishers Weekly (starred review), on Hounded “An exciting mix of comedy, action, and mythology . . . [Atticus] is one of the best main characters currently present in the urban fantasy genre.”—Fantasy Book Critic, on Tricked
Kevin is the NYT bestselling author of the Iron Druid Chronicles, as well as The Seven Kennings, an epic fantasy trilogy, and the Tales of Pell, a humorous fantasy series co-authored with Delilah S. Dawson. INK & SIGIL, a new urban fantasy series set in the Iron Druid universe, will be out in 2020.
This is like the Dresden files but with Druids rather than wizards. It's a nice adventure book, and the main character talking to the earth and his dog made it more wholesome and cute. It's a quick read but I probably should have stopped somewhere in the middle because I got kind of annoyed at the length, especially because the story doesn't finish within this bundle. While it does get a bit 'monster of the week' with each book, the overarching story is definitely very present and an integral part of the whole. I enjoyed the tone of the book, the main character is pretty irreverent and his dog (Oberon) is very funny. While the main character is supposed to be over 2000 years old, he made it a point to stay up to date on pop culture for all of those years, so he reads like a hip twenty something.
I was pretty uncomfortable with one scene where the main character has sex with a goddess he worships. It read a bit too much like rape to me, especially because she was using some magic to make him willing, and he says pretty clearly he's afraid. Then again he's 2000 years old and she's a goddess so I don't know. Her arc was very sad though.
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5 out of 5 stars for undeniably one of the best series of urban fantasy novels currently in the making - witty, fun, fast paced and completely gripping from beginning to end!