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A review by sgwilt
Age of Heroes by James Lovegrove
4.0
I have enjoyed all of Lovegrove's Pantheon series. Discovering Age of Ra as a teenager led to me devouring these books. They are, in my opinion, the "blockbuster summer action movie" of literature. And Age of Heroes is no exception to that opinion.
The story is rather simple but full of enough red herrings and false twists to suck me in and make me not want to put the book down. The action is punchy and terse and not filled with the flourish and grandiosity of most other fantasy/sci-fi action stories; I do think that the specificity of certain scenes, like an axe lodging in a trapezeous muscle is a little goofy but in a fun way that serves to guide the fights more clearly for the reader, a simplicity that I greatly appreciate.
While the B plot with Josie does leave a little to be desired, and definitely isn't what I would call "realistic mental health representation" it's still effective and emotional enough that it's easy to forgive that failing.
All in All, a fantastic book by a great author
The story is rather simple but full of enough red herrings and false twists to suck me in and make me not want to put the book down. The action is punchy and terse and not filled with the flourish and grandiosity of most other fantasy/sci-fi action stories; I do think that the specificity of certain scenes, like an axe lodging in a trapezeous muscle is a little goofy but in a fun way that serves to guide the fights more clearly for the reader, a simplicity that I greatly appreciate.
While the B plot with Josie does leave a little to be desired, and definitely isn't what I would call "realistic mental health representation" it's still effective and emotional enough that it's easy to forgive that failing.
All in All, a fantastic book by a great author