Review – Lost Gods by Brom (4/5 stars)

Reading Level: Adult
Genre: Dark Fantasy
Length: 496 pages
Publisher: Harper Voyager
Release Date: September 26, 2017
ISBN-13: 978-0062095695
Stand Alone or Series: Stand Alone
Source: Bought
Rating: 4/5 stars

“A young man descends into Purgatory to save his wife and unborn child in this gorgeous, illustrated tale of wonder and terror from the mind of master storyteller and acclaimed artist Brom.

Fresh out of jail and eager to start a new life, Chet Moran and his pregnant wife, Trish, leave town to begin again. But an ancient evil is looming, and what seems like a safe haven may not be all it appears . . .

Snared and murdered by a vile, arcane horror, Chet quickly learns that pain and death are not unique to the living. Now the lives and very souls of his wife and unborn child are at stake.

To save them, he must journey into the bowels of purgatory in search of a sacred key promised to restore the natural order of life and death. Alone, confused, and damned, Chet steels himself against the unfathomable terrors awaiting him as he descends into death’s stygian blackness.”

I always enjoy Brom’s novels. This ended up being a well done and dark epic fantasy novel. It does get a bit long at times, but overall I enjoyed it.

The novel deals with a story about purgatory, religion and lost gods of old. Our anti-hero Chet ends up in purgatory after being murdered by an evil being and goes on an epic quest to stop this evil and save his wife.

The world was well put together and Brom’s artwork was amazing, although I wish there had been more of it.

My biggest gripe about this book is that it is told from so many different viewpoints. I think there seven or eight different viewpoints and many of the chapters were only a couple pages long. This made the story really disjointed and resulted in somewhat poor characterization.

Overall this is a well done dark epic fantasy. I enjoyed the world-building but through the constant (and brief) viewpoint switches were distracting. I also thought many of the characters were underdeveloped (probably because there were so many of them). If you are a Brom fan you will probably enjoy this. However I liked “The Child Thief” a lot better than this book.

This book goes towards the following reading challenges:
– Goodreads Reading Challenge
– Mount TBR Reading Challenge