Mortals & Deities

I won this book through a Firstreads giveaway at Goodreads.

I read a lot of fantasy and Mr. Drake definitely has talent. He creates an interesting, deep world with a great magic system. I especially liked the characters of Elith and Arderi and I am looking forward to reading more of their adventures.

A couple of things hold this book back from being a standout in the genre. The book falls prey to several things that particularly annoy me about fantasy literature. I dislike when authors feel the need to add words to the language, in this case “nix”, for no good reason and when every other word or name has to have an apostrophe in it. I also thought that several of the key moments in this book, especially the forming of the main group, were a little rushed.

I would recommend this book for fantasy lovers and I look forward to more books from Mr. Drake.