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"Shadowfall (Godslayer Chronicles #1)" by James Clemens♦ ♦
Dropping this book 4 chapters in. It's disgusting, literally bile inducing. In the 2nd chapter, a 13 year old girl is raped in a very graphic way. The main hero used to be a knight but for his crimes he was broken on the wheel and sold into slavery. The acolytes serving the 100 gods take care of and store their god's bodily fluids and smear them all over themselves - and I'm talking shit and menses blood and stuff like that. Just thinking of that makes me want to vomit. So when I started the 5th chapter, in which the main hero is whipped for something he obviously, very obviously didn't do till his flesh parts from his bones, I said to myself ENOUGH!
So why 2 stars? Because the story is interesting and would've been really good if the author curbed his voyeuristic obsession with perverse stuff.
If you want to read a dark fantasy about gods, read Tom Lloyd's "The Twilight Reign" - the series is not without flaws either but Lloyd's gods are much more interesting and he gets his heroes irrevocably broken while never crossing the line into being disgusting.
