No Gods, No Monsters
Ratings31
Average rating3.6
This is the kind of book that sounds amazing on the surface, and maybe when you start your journey reading it it is - Turnbull does indeed have a way with words, and the characters are interesting - but the overall flow of the book and the often jarring split between first and third person povs made it hard for me to get through or feel motivated to pick up.
The popped up as recommended while I was browsing Libby. It sounded right in my wheel house. And maybe it could be, but it wasn't working for me at the moment. I could simply be in a early year funk, but I was annoyed by each character (except Dragon, I suppose) and decided to bail when the book was due.
Interesting story and plot but was a little all over the place narratively.
Liked the speculative fiction aspect a lot but the jumping around between different narrators was a bit confusing at times, could've been called out slightly better
It took me a while to read this, not because it's not good because it's actually great, but because I was on vacation and felt like doing nothing. Not even reading! Weird!
Anyway, this is a great urban fantasy/cosmic horror with monsters and shifters and secret societies. If that's your jam, check this out!
I am a big fan of monsters. I believe that there are unexplained beings all around us and there are things we don't understand. I don't believe that we are the only intelligent being in the universe. If you are like me, I think you would enjoy this book.
This book combines fantasy and the real world issues that we are facing today, but puts different faces to them. What do you think would happen if it was revealed on a global scale that monsters existed? And as you're trying to get a handle on that all of a sudden all of the proof is wiped from existence and all you're left with is the question of what you actually saw. A question if you just conjured those images in your mind or if you did see it and you realize there is a force powerful enough to wipe viral videos from existence (we all know how hard, if not impossible, that is).
This book has a lot of points of views. I think this helps with getting the full scope of the story and seeing the way it affects different people that are within this story. This allows for empathy and clearly is something I wish we had today - a way to see an issue from all sides. However, this does add to the confusion. This book is kind of all over the place which I think is also the allure of it. It's from many different perspectives and it goes between different time lines, different universes, and doesn't fully explain each monster and god. Instead, it gives you tid bits that you won't understand without following the whole book. There are still things left open ended that hopefully future books (this is meant to be a series) will address.
Overall, I enjoyed this. Once I got the rhythm of the writing and understand each POV, their roll (as much as I could understand) and how they related to each other I thought this was an incredibly interesting book. This was an audio book for me and the narrator did a fantastic job as well.
Thank you Netgalley and Blackstone Publishing for an advanced eCopy for an honest review.
When I first saw this one, I was excited. Perfect Spooktober read right? (I tend to start a little early
You ever start a book and have no idea where it's going, but you are here for the ride anyway?
That's what happened with No Gods, No Monsters. It started off as a contemporary social commentary before diving into its paranormal fantasy elements, then took a hard turn into horror, but also it's a mystery? Regardless of classification, I enjoyed it and am looking forward to the next book.
Thanks to Blackstone Publishing and NetGalley for allowing me to read this digital review copy in exchange for an honest review.