Hunted
ISBN: 9780356501987
Description
For a two-thousand-year-old Druid, Atticus O'Sullivan is a pretty fast runner. Good thing, because he's being chased by not one but two goddesses of the hunt - Artemis and Diana - for messing with one of their own. Dodging their slings and arrows, Atticus, his apprentice Granuaile and his wolfhound Oberon are making a mad dash across modern-day Europe to seek help from a friend of the Tuatha Dé Danann. His usual magical option of shifting planes is blocked, so instead of playing hide and seek, the game plan is run like hell.
Crashing the pantheon marathon is the Norse god Loki. Killing Atticus is the only loose end he needs to tie up before unleashing Ragnarok - AKA the Apocalypse. Atticus and Granuaile have to outfox the Olympians and contain the god of mischief if they want to go on living - and still have a world to live in.
Reviewed on 25th March 2016
The sixth Iron Druid novel continues directly on from the fifth story, and so is kind of the second story of the second arc within the series. The characters are on the run from a group of vengeful gods, racing across Europe in an attempt to find somewhere safe to hide or mount a defence, and I just didn't really engage.
I don't know whether it's because the characters' motivations were established in a story I read three months ago, or whether I've just lost track since the continuity gap between books four and five, but I really struggled to feel interested in the plights of the characters and never felt that gripped feeling of being desperate to keep reading right until the train pulls into the station.
One thing I know failed to engage me was the rolling roster of secondary characters that drop in from a really wide variety of mythological pantheons. It's reached the point where they are so saturated that is can't keep track of who is who, which side they are on, what's motivating them, and why I should care.
So I'm afraid that this entry wasn't really my cup of tea. I don't think it'll stop me continuing with the series, but it's certainly not going to be something I hurry back to.
