Lost gods
Ratings13
Average rating3.9
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Ratings13
Average rating3.9
"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. With Lost Gods, Brom's gritty and visceral prose takes us on a haunting, harrowing journey into the depths of the underworld. Thrust into a realm of madness and chaos, where ancient gods and demons battle over the dead, and where cabals of souls conspire to overthrow their masters, Chet plays a dangerous game, risking eternal damnation to save his family"--
"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"--
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DNF at 70%.
I have to be honest in connection with Brom, I am just not all that impressed by his stories. Sure, they have some interesting ideas, but so far the two I have read (or attempted to read) were... not really anything I care about all that much. Krampus was fun for Christmas, as it was very different from what we usually get around then, but this... No. It just wasn't really interesting to me.
The man's art is lovely. I find it interesting enough, with its dark elements and all. The books, though, they just seem to be too long to keep me interested. Brom seems to be good at somehow creating a moment of absolute dread, of messed up shit, but to me it's all just too much in a way that bores me and makes me feel slightly ridiculous. Not the type of a thing that I enjoy all that much.
In this one a troubled young man gets his girlfriend pregnant and they run away to his mysterious grandma. Which... ends up with the guy being murdered and having to go through purgatory for a mission to have a chance to save his girlfriend and their unborn baby.
Even just that premise sounds a bit like it was just intended to shock me as much as possible and I really hate when an author does that. It usually uses cheap tricks (like pregnant women) to make us all feel the dread, which to me always ends up being lame enough to make me roll my eyes. A bit of that is happening here, even though it is far from the worst example.
Does anyone else notice that the dude in Krampus was also a down on his luck, petty criminal in the South who tried to win back his family or something? At first that was nice enough, a bit different, but now I just couldn't help comparing the two book and wondering if this was all Brom could do. Probably not, I hope not, really.
At this point I don't feel like finishing it, though. It's far from absolutely horrible, but it is taking so long to get ANYWHERE that I feel like I have no time for this. I was expecting something more, something that was a bit less slow. I simply couldn't really get excited about it and right now, when I need my fun times to relax. In a less busy time I would have probably finished it, but right now I simply feel like I have too little time to waste it on books that don't excite me.
I wasn't really making any progress and already started reading the second Monstrumologist book by Yancey, so it's safe to say this already lost me. I prefer leaving before it becomes too much of a chore and I get into a real slump.
Good night and oh my gods, I need some fun now!
