Staked
by:
Kevin Hearne (author)
Format: ebook
ISBN:
9780345548528 (345548523)
Publish date: 2016-01-26
Publisher: Del Rey Books
Pages no: 336
Edition language: English
Series: The Iron Druid Chronicles (#8)
A couple of things occurred to me while reading Staked: it feels like Herne doesn't really like his main character, Atticus; at least, not judging by the amount of existential pain he dumps on him. The other is that I can see the inspiration, right down the the scatalogical humor, of the character...
Staked opens with Atticus back in Toronto, a place he swore he’d never visit again. He’s there to steal the list of all vampires in the world. While there, he runs into Joseph – the head of Hammers of God, who has retired and married. Atticus learns that Joseph has seen the errors of his youth, and ...
Atticus continues his lethal war against the vampires – old enemies of the druids who had nearly succeeded in wiping out druidry 2000 years ago. Now Owen is opening his own school for new druids, it’s time to fight the vampires to a new peace – or extinction. Owen and Granuaile have issues of thei...
The Timmie's on York Street sported a garish green-and-yellow-striped awning, a fire hydrant out front in case of donut grease fire, and a convenient signpost pointing the way to public parking. "What kind of ungodly breakfast meat do you want from here?" I asked Oberon as I tied him up to the sign....
Meh - Same old, same old, but with less Oberon and less humour and less gods. This book was not as good as the previous books in the series.