The Hunger of the Gods

This book was determined to be a 4 star until the last 30 pages or so. So it gets 4.5.

Hunger of the Gods was my most anticipated book of the year, after absolutely loving Shadow of the Gods last year. I was so psyched to get an ARC of it, and it bounced right to the top of my TBR.

And it is really good. We got even more in depth worldbuilding, more time with the characters I loved in SotG, the mythology of the first book is expanded. Gwynne remains excellent at writing combat, and developing characters that you root for. Gwynne added two new POVs that gave us perspective on the villains and this added a lot to the brewing conflict. The ending of this book was incredible, even better than book 1!

Unfortunately, this book did feel like a step down to me from SotG. It felt very much like a middle book. Tons of traveling, doing a task, travelling, doing a task. At one point all of the POVs are travelling at the same time to different places and I'm like this is ludacrious haha. Also, there is so many blood feuds in this book. You need a chart to keep track of all the people who have vowed to kill each other.

There are moments of this book I absolutely loved, and I really enjoy this world and these characters, so even a step down is still fantastic. I cannot wait for book three after that amazing ending.

9/10