

I saw her for maybe five seconds, until she hopped into a Honda and her human drove her away. "She was so fit and her coat was tightly curled and she had a perfect pouf on the end of her tail like a tennis ball. Atticus and I were just arriving and she was leaving." You’re haunted by someone flashing you on a street corner? You will haunt him for the rest of his life. "That was mean," Oberon said, watching the man look wildly around for me and pawing at his eyes as if to clear them. It shattered, drawing his eyes to the sidewalk, and I took the opportunity afforded by his distraction to disappear again. His jaw and the bottle of Żubrówka dropped at the same time. 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.“I dispelled my invisibility for a few seconds in his full view, a finger resting provocatively on my lower lip, giving him a come-hither look under a streetlight. Killing Atticus is the only loose end he needs to tie up before unleashing Ragnarok-AKA the Apocalypse. run like hell.Ĭrashing the pantheon marathon is the Norse god Loki.

His usual magical option of shifting planes is blocked, so instead of playing hide-and-seek, the game plan is. Dodging their slings and arrows, Atticus, 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.

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.

Neil Gaiman’s American Gods meets Jim Butcher’s Harry Dresden.”- SFFWorldįor someone who’s been alive for two thousand years, Atticus O’Sullivan is a pretty fast runner. “ Hearne is a terrific storyteller with a great snarky wit. . In the sixth novel in the New York Times bestselling Iron Druid Chronicles, two-thousand-year-old Druid Atticus O’Sullivan finds himself the target of two goddesses of the hunt and a trickster god determined to unleash the apocalypse.
