Against All Gods: The Age of Bronze: Book 1

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There are many POVs and storylines to follow, but Cameron leads you through them with fast-paced tenacity and joy that you miss each one as you move on.

The gods feel the humans are beneath contempt, just playthings, but necessary to feed their existence, and the humans become equally contemptuous of the gods, due to the god’s oppressive treatment of their mortal subjects. AGAINST ALL ODDS is just his latest success story and here are my thought upon finishing the book late last night. Every time I think I have my "best books of the year" list sorted, here comes a book like "Against All Gods" to throw a wrench in my well-made plans.Determined to get revenge, Gamash finds himself a willing tool of an older god who exists to stir up chaos and challenge her new masters. I was completely and utterly lost and confused by the plot of this book, or at least what I could read. Once this happens, and the humans open their eyes to how badly the gods behave, it seems war is unavoidable, because without mutual respect, neither party can value the lives of the other.

Victims of vicious whims, trapped by their circumstances or pushed beyond what the mortal frame can bear, a handful of god-touched mortals - a scribe, a warlord, a dancer and a child - are about to be brought together in a conspiracy of their own. Sure, it is not as up to date as various academic offerings but its infinitely more readable and a great overview. It's like he's in a weird state of mind and it's hard to get a grasp of what's going on and it took me several days to get through this chapter. The gods here hide monstrosity behind pleasing masks; the humans, though flawed, reveal an ever-brightening spark of divinity.

moment, it boiled to so many people you didn't care about chiming in or thinking about the other in a long and disjointed dialogue scene. The odd little boy Daos, and his relationship with his foster mother, Era, will melt your heart, and Cameron will also force you to care, a lot, about the donkey! Actually, despite Gamash’s role in the beginning, the book has an assorted cast; there is no particular hero.