Derek Earl Earl itibaren Petrivka, Kyivs'ka oblast, Ukraine
PROS: The central core idea has a lot of potential. Good supporting players. Some of the modernizations of gods and monsters is interesting. Good climax. CONS: The lead is a lunkhead. The humor falls flat. The plotting is chaotic, dropping our characters into one random situation after another. It does veer off, but the first third is an awkward knockoff of the setup of Harry Potter. The action scenes are awkward. Even though the entire setup is built around illegitimate children, the book shortcuts itself by being unable to explore the sexual promiscuity of the gods. The fact that monsters can't be killed and a dead person that's suddenly revealed not to be dead in the end both rob the story of intensity and consequence.