Idols Fall

Shel is a truly gifted storyteller and he's woven a trilogy-capping book that is dark, twisty, funny, wholly satisfying, and bloody brilliant...major emphasis on the “bloody.”

Sometimes the third book in a series starts to feel stale if it's not charting new ground, but Shel has injected enough fresh energy into this story and its characters to pay off this final adventure splendidly. There's so much fantasy goodness packed into the pages here: demonic possession, talking swords, beasts from hell, false gods, geopolitical conflict, cults, and of course, a dangerous expedition into an ancient cursed ruin. It's all rendered beautifully on the page by Shel's delightful prose. Bump this trilogy up your TBRs folks. This is a masterful conclusion to an outstanding series.

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My thanks to the author for an advanced reader copy in exchange for an honest review.