Rise of Gods

I sincerely want this one to be a 5 star book, so many concepts,unheard of mythological creatures, so much information, but unfortunately that is what hurt this one..............too much info and the author's narration/take on the said info.........

I have lived my life with the stories of the Greek pantheon, the Norse Mythology, the Aztec's bloodthirtsty religion, the Christian Belief, the numerous saints, deities of both Japanese and Chinese culture, and yes this is how excited I was to read this narrative, ten pages in, excitement rose to barely contained glee, so much characters and then.............um focus just got entangled, ahhhhh.......ok so this trio went in search of who??? Oh, they have a master and this master is????? then the narrative ends on to the main story...........

Ok, now the life of the main human protagonists are introduced, and yes Chapter Two, and what a new character???? Oh this one is not human, and ok Chapter 3 and we switch to the humans again, and Chapter 4, oh new characters different from Chapter 2, and???!! and???!!! and..........well that was how I read the whole book, different point of views by different characters, you would get someone introduced, ran several pages of story, jump again to the previous characters and so forth and so on, I love books that narrates the different characters' points of views, because it makes the heroes and villains of this books seem alive!!! But sometimes too much of something is also bad, like this one, of course the main human protagonists story continued, but the non human or Deva characters got the short changed method, further along the book, the narration gets better, but my excitement of reading a new take on the those aforementioned deities and demons, slowly disappeared, I love the characters Tanuki, Asterion, Arges, Ao Guang, Baphomet, and A WHOLE LOT MORE, but Mr. Ashton did not elaborate on them!!!

Maybe this was supposed to be Fiona and Zeke's origin story, but why go to the trouble of introducing a whole lot more, if they were just a prelude of things to come and the saving grace of the three Baphomet, Ao Guang, and Dimmi got captivated and in effects becoming a thrall of another major(?) character.......................

Even with the helter skelter type of story telling it still was an enjoyable book, hopefully the second one would truly tell the story of the other Deva's and not just snatches of info.