Genre: Robots and demigods/goddesses are just trying to be! Except the one who wants world domination. Except that one.
Basic Summary: (This is the hardest basic summary to write…) Multiple people are connected to each other and find their god/goddess powers. There are the good ones and then there is Sydney.
Rating: 4/5
Warnings: Mentions of rape, a mob attack on a young girl and there is some description of sexual assault. There is lots of violence and killing.
Review:
This book is written in third person limited where it focuses on one person at a time (until around the end of the book when a lot of craziness is happening). The book has these five main characters: Muzi, Nomvula, Stoker, Riya, and Sydney. The chapters switch between all these characters.
And I love all of them. Even the antagonist: Sydney, demigoddess with a chip on her shoulder the size of all the oceans combined.
The other does a good job intermingling the plots of all the characters. I’ll admit, I did wonder where it was going for the first couple of chapters but it comes together really well.
The book is set in South Africa and the author does a good job of giving you a sense of setting. I love the problem with the dik-diks and all the jokes that came from it. “I’m having a problem with my dik-dik.”
Great pacing and use of story telling. There is a lot of mythology type story telling which one character will tell another character a story.
Near the ending it does get a little odd. A lot of things happen all at once and there are times it gets confusing on who is doing what. That sounds so vague but I don’t want to give anyone spoilers on what happens.
Overall, a great read. I’ll be checking out more of this author’s work.
May you get lost in a book,
Chrissy