By Kevin Hearne
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For approximately thousand years, just one Druid has walked the Earth—Atticus O’Sullivan, the Iron Druid, whose sharp wit and sharp sword have stored him alive as he’s been pursued through a pantheon of adversarial deities. Now he’s obtained company.
Atticus’s apprentice Granuaile is finally an entire Druid herself. What’s extra, Atticus has defrosted an archdruid some time past frozen in time, a father determine (of types) who now is going via the trendy identical of his outdated Irish identify: Owen Kennedy.
And Owen has a few catching as much as do.
Atticus takes excitement within the position reversal, because the pupil is now the trainer. among busting Atticus’s chops and attempting to fathom a cellphone, Owen also needs to research English. For Atticus, the jury’s nonetheless out on no matter if the wily previous coot should be an asset within the epic conflict with Norse god Loki—or simply a ache within the arse.
yet Atticus isn’t the one one with daddy concerns. Granuaile faces an outstanding problem: to exorcise a sorcerer’s spirit that's owning her father in India. regardless of assistance from the witch Laksha, Granuaile could be dealing with a crushing defeat.
As the trio of Druids bargains with pestilence-spreading demons, bacon-loving yeti, fierce flying foxes, and frenzied Fae, they’re hoping that this time, three’s a charm.
Praise for Shattered
“Funny, razor-sharp . . . lots of motion, humor, and mythology hold this e-book enjoyable and interesting.”—Booklist (starred review)
“Uproariously interesting in a manner that Hearne is uniquely capable of in achieving . . . [Shattered] has the sensation of a brand new starting for its hero and for the series.”—RT e-book Reviews
“This sequence simply will get higher and higher, and Shattered indicates no symptoms of it slowing down.”—Vampire booklet Club
“Well and really awesome.”—Fangs for the Fantasy
“So a lot enjoyable to read!”—Hidden in Pages
“[With] shrewdpermanent writing and engrossing story-telling, it’s very unlikely to not get thoroughly absorbed into the realm Kevin [Hearne] has created.”—Yummy males and Kick Ass Chicks
Praise for Kevin Hearne and The Iron Druid Chronicles
“Clever, fast-paced and an outstanding escape.”—Jason Weisberger, Boing Boing
“[Kevin] Hearne is a very good storyteller with a good snarky wit. . . . Neil Gaiman’s American Gods meets Jim Butcher’s Harry Dresden.”—SFFWorld
“Celtic mythology and an historic Druid with smooth angle combine it up within the Arizona desolate tract during this witty new myth series.”—Kelly Meding, writer of Tempest
“[Atticus is] a powerful glossy hero with a protracted heritage and the wit to outlive within the twenty-first century. . . . a quick narrative voice.”—Library Journal, on Hounded
“Outrageously fun.”—The simple Dealer, on Hounded
“Superb . . . lots of quips and zap-pow-bang fighting.”—Publishers Weekly (starred review), on Hounded
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Placing jointly a group of badasses, Atticus raids Asgard two times, regardless of warnings from the Morrigan and Jesus Christ that this is able to be a negative inspiration and it'd be top to not maintain his observe. The carnage is epic, with heavy losses one of the Æsir, together with the Norns, Thor, and a crippled Odin. The dying of the Norns, a facet of destiny, ability the previous prophecies relating to Ragnarok are actually unchained, and Hel can start to paintings with little or no competition from the Æsir. although, an odd accident with the Finnish hero Väinämöinen reminds Atticus of a unique prophecy, one spoken by means of the sirens to Odysseus in the past, and he concerns that 13 years therefore the realm will burn—perhaps in a few altered kind of Ragnarok. Feeling the warmth for his shenanigans and wanting time to coach his apprentice, Atticus fakes his personal demise with assistance from Coyote in ebook 4, Tricked. Hel does certainly make an visual appeal, considering Atticus could wish to subscribe to her at the darkish facet on account that he’d killed such a lot of Æsir, yet she is brutally rebuffed. Atticus is betrayed through Leif Helgarson and narrowly escapes loss of life by the hands of an old vampire named Zdenik, however the publication ends with a modicum of insurance that Atticus should be capable of teach Granuaile in anonymity. within the novella Ravens and One Crow, Odin awakens from his lengthy sleep and forges a truce of varieties with Atticus, enlisting the Druid to tackle Thor’s function in Ragnarok, should still it come to go, and maybe look after one other few issues alongside the best way. After twelve years of teaching, Granuaile is able to be guaranteed to the earth, however it turns out as though the Druid’s enemies were awaiting him to emerge in booklet 5, Trapped. Atticus needs to care for vampires, darkish elves, faeries, and the Roman god Bacchus, and messing with the Olympian attracts the eye of 1 of the world’s oldest and strongest pantheons. as soon as Granuaile is an entire Druid, Atticus needs to run throughout Europe to prevent the bows of Diana and Artemis, who took exception to his therapy of Bacchus and the dryads of Olympus in publication 5. The Morrigan sacrifices herself to provide him a head begin and Atticus is Hunted in e-book six. operating and scuffling with his well past a coordinated try and convey him down, he makes it to England, the place he can enlist the aid of Herne the Hunter and Flidais, the Irish goddess of the search. There Atticus is ready to defeat the Olympians and negotiate a delicate alliance opposed to Hel and Loki. on the finish of this quantity, he discovers that his archdruid was once frozen in time in Tír na nÓg, and while Atticus retrieves him, his previous mentor is in as foul a temper as ever. additionally, alongside the best way, there can have been a few speak of poodles and sausages. bankruptcy 1 Few issues set off outdated thoughts so quick as authority figures from our formative years. I’m no longer announcing these thoughts are unavoidably stable ones; they’re easily previous and have a tendency to forged us again into roles we inspiration we grew out of some time past. occasionally the stories are hot and blanket us like a mother’s love. extra usually, despite the fact that, they've got the edge of hoarfrost, which bites firstly, then numbs and settles within the bones for a deep, prolonged sit back.