I award this book 1 billion wagging dog tails for a fulfilling, unexpected finale to what has been one of my favorite series.Some spoiler-y thoughts on "the Granuaile situation": (read at your own peril) (view spoiler)[I've read many reviews of people upset at Granuaile for breaking up with Atticus. A few thoughts: 1) you are always allowed to walk away from the person you are dating, especially when you realize that there is a fundamental, insurmountable difference in the way you see things. Th...

I loved this series. I recommended it to anyone who would listen. Not any more. I cannot adequately describe how frustrated, angry, and betrayed I feel over the ending. I. HATE. IT.HATE!!! Oh, it's cleverly done. Everything was "fixed" in the end. It's all neat, tidy, and incredibly unfair. "But Jason, it's a lesson. The world isn't fair, it's his only way out, and maybe there's hope for peace and happiness... so says Jesus! It was prophesied!" Well, fuck that noise!They're worthy goals, to be s...

I'm amazed, satisfied, filled with humor and equal dismay.*wail* This is the end of the Iron Druid. The story of Atticus is done. *wail*Fortunately, this last book is a wildly good ride, featuring a better Hel and Loki from some movies we've seen, a Ragnarok with full pantheons of the Greek and the Fae on board, as well as a number of great cameos from Jesus, Coyote, and the Monkey King.This is one hell of a big blowout and it's time for Atticus to account for starting it.And then there's the Oa...

As they say, I wish I could give this book ZERO stars.What a sanctimonious, sniveling, pissant end to what WAS an excellent series. One of my favorites in nearly 60 years of reading, destroyed by Pecksniffian bullshit.Had I known that Hearne was going to reduce one of my all time favorite characters into a neutered, puling, shadow man in a hair shirt, I'd not have wasted a minute of my time, or my money on his books, and certainly won't make that mistake again. Apparently, Atticus should have hu...

What a sad end to a series I generally liked! And by sad, I mean disappointing. This books throws every god/deity/mythological being into one big battle, which maybe would have been exciting if I wasn't so busy being bored and/or confused. I'm sure some, if not most of them, were 'shown' to us in previous books but keeping them all straight was incredibly difficult for me, especially given their names (which granted the author could do nothing about, but still). Add on to that the ease in which

And so it ends.For now at least.Kevin Hearne wraps up his very entertaining Iron Druid series nicely, binding together the myriad strands of myth, legend and urban fantasy that made this all so fun. Like all the others, Hearne’s underlying humor, some of it corny, was also in good form and for the most part, this was one of the better stories.Ragnarok has come down on us from the old Norse myths and Atticus and his confederacy of Norse, Celtic, Fae and other pantheons team up to put Loki and Hel...

What an abysmal end to such a fun and once promising series. How did it devolve into so many pages of dogs talking about gravy, main characters wondering about whether vampires have boogers, and lengthy conversations with sloths? Considering this was the much led-up-to apocalypse, where was the gravitas? Yes, we got some repetitive passages of Atticus whining about his poor decisions, but that did not create any tension. Nor did the technique of shifting between the three protagonists points-of-...

WHAT A BITCH....... That is the main thought that is continually running through my mind as I sit here and think about the ending to this series. ***THERE ARE SPOILERS AHEAD.......Do not go on if you have not read the book******Yes - the series had to end.Yes- the series might have even gone a book or two passed where it should have ended.Yes - Atticus screwed up.Now that those things are out of the way, so the f***what? He is human (well, for the most part). He has lived an EXTRAORDINARILY long...

Save for the introduction, this story is not fun and my least favorite to date. 3 of 10 stars!

A fun romp, with an ending like a punch in the gut. I miss these books so much already.

What a shitty ending! I was (view spoiler)[worried things between Atticus and Granuaile weren't going well and then this is what she does? Way to kick a guy when he's down. I know Atticus made a huge mistake with Freya, but people make mistakes! I hope he finds someone who'll be happy to start a family with him and raise little Druids in the future and then Granuaile realizes what she missed out on. She can rot in hell for all I care! (hide spoiler)]The only good parts were with Owen and Oberon...

As someone who loves every one of the Iron Druid series. This one was a disappointment. I felt like Kevin Hearne just wanted the series to end and didn't care how he did it. I know he says that 9 is a special number in irish mythology. I know that he wanted to move onto something new. Still give us a decent ending and not a mashup that felt like a first draft.

This was such a disappointment. I'd read all of Kevin Hearne's previous novels about Atticus and was heavily invested in the characters and the world they lived in. I realize ending a series is hard, but I felt like the plot was thin and rushed, it was as if he was over writing about Atticus and just decided to throw him under the bus and blacken his character while he was at it and then tie everything else up neatly. It didn't work. I hated it, it absolutely ruined the series for me.

Full review now posted!Original review can be found at Booknest.Rating: 4.5/5 starsWell, that’s it. After nine books, we’ve finally reached the end of the road.Reading this series has been among the most fun I’ve ever had reading. Hearne has spun a wonderful tale with an amazing cast of characters. So many of these characters have come to feel like friends and even family. Atticus, our main character, has gotten into some terrible scrapes throughout the series, and everything he’s done comes to

This was a bit of a sad ending for a series which I have previously enjoyed very much. I liked some of it but wish the author had not gone for the three separate story lines. It really did not work and all I could think of was that the three Druids should have been there together for the battle that could end the world. Why were they playing around with fancy tea, Monkey kings and talking sloths (don't ask!) when they should have been out there helping to bring down Loki.And the ending was reall...

I am so disappointed by this book. Like, incredibly so. Let me list the disappointments, with minor but minimal spoilers:Disappointment 1: The size. At the font size I was reading at, it was 248 pages long... including copyright, pronunciation guides, and all that. 250 pages for the epic final book of a 9 book series is incredibly small.Disappointment 2: The pace. The book is almost entirely composed of brief "and now this is happening over here" chapters. There's very little where all the chara...

What the heck happened to this series? I've looked at the earlier books, and they're so good... Is Mr. Hearne even writing this? Has the person who's writing this read the earlier books?Where are the Gun wielding Draugar from book 5? Fand's rebellion, a MAIN hidden plot thread of an entire 2-3 book arc (remember Atticus almost dying to a Manticore?, the issues with Pandamonium?), is fixed by having a chair destroyed. That's it. All she wanted is a chair destroyed. What the hell? And now she's de...

This is the review I wrote for Amazon:Scourged seems to be an exercise in self flagellation for all involved: for the main character, a contest of how much guilt can be achieved and how many terrible things can happen (that he can then blame himself for); for the writer, to see just how much he can pile into this story that doesn't fit with the rest of the series while minimizing page count; for the reader, to see just how much of all of the above while stretching the bounds of believability (in...

Let me start off by saying I can see what he was attempting to do here. When you have a nine book series hoping around the world all leading up to the end of the world, you're going to want to create and 'epic' finally bring in all the characters met along the way. Hearne just does a really poor job of executing it. Several times he has massive threats neutralized swiftly and easily.(view spoiler)[1. Midgardsormr - Kills 2 sheep and then gets one shotted by Lacksha.2. Surtur - One shotted by ice...

I thoroughly enjoyed the Druid series but I am afraid Scourged left me cold. The final Ragnarok battle felt totally disjointed and jumbled. Whilst the main character did warrant some payback for some of his decisions in earlier books the various outcomes were at the same time unexpected and overkill. Overall the entire book felt like the author was running out of steam and was trying to gather up all the loose ends and finalise each one in what turned out a very amateurish fashion. I think his m...