Edrin, the wizard, returns to his hometown after 10 years to avenge the death of his best and only [ 🙁 ] friend.
Edrin starts the investigation in a film noir style. (Edrin buddy is DAMN cynical, self-willed, and snarky.) Unfortunately, the investigation quickly turns into much more uninteresting dungeon crawling.
At the same time, it turns out that Edrin has the coolest magic ability… but also not really. It also turns out that it’s bad luck to be claustrophobic during dungeon crawling.
The investigation reveals a GLOBAL conspiracy and leads to SUPERPOWERFUL adversaries. Meanwhile, a bit of a Supernatural like feeling creeps in, exactly like when Sam and Dean burst into some place armed with a single demon-killing pen knife, get slammed into the wall by some demon, but at the end, we realize somehow they still WON…
And our feeling intensifies that we are actually reading a series finale: the events are so massive (there are gigantic combat robots too!) So it’s hard to imagine where the heck Cameron Johnston is going to raise the stakes from here, maybe into the stratosphere???
Oh, and during the story, we probably realize that the main character of The Traitor God is not as insensitive jerk as he thinks himself: his constant concerns are, after all, the scum of the city and the two toughest assassins, who could probably finish him off in about 3 seconds with a not-so-good, used cotton swab.
6.6/10
The Traitor God (Age of Tyranny, #1) by Cameron Johnston
432 pages, Paperback
Published June 5, 2018 by Angry Robot
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Review of the sequel:
God of Broken Things