Whelp, this was just not good at all.
Compared to the length of the other books I can’t believe I am going to say this, this needed to be longer.
Too much got cramped in here, too many reveals (no spoilers) and way too short of an ending to move onto the next thing. I was interested in how things were going to go down in Greece, but geez it was rushed, it didn’t make a lot of sense, and of course if you know your Greek mythology, you don’t really need too many things explained to you, but I still felt irritated by the thinness of the plot.
I think that Delaney probably plotted things out and just needed this book as filler so to speak, but it really was filler.
And honestly, one character, Tom’s mam is a hot old mess and I thought that there was too much left unsaid about what she did and didn’t do to set some of these events in motion. And I felt for Tom’s brothers who it is apparent she does not care about at all, or the things that were done to them because of her and Tom. I really want someone to read this character for filth, but I don’t think that is ever going to happen. And I am really tired of everyone saying with the Fiend walking the world things will get worst…um they weren’t a bag of sunshine before! I think that’s why I don’t believe in this whole epic quest to defeat the Fiend nonsense.
And of course, again, Tom makes the worst decision tree decision ever and I maybe smacked my forehead because I was just officially done at this point. And we have heard through 5 books now that the Spook does not agree with those who turn to the dark for their own ends, and he makes a decision that was out of character, didn’t make sense, and I think that Delaney lost a chance to really set up a tougher road for Tom about what he should do.