During their travels they meet all sorts of gods and goddesses, mermaids, dragons, fey, vampires, and just about everything mythological and fantasy figure and creature you can possibly imagine. This quest sends the pair all over the known world, and quite a few other ones. She teams up with Tyro who is determined to fight for the civil rights of the homuncului. She sacrifices that life when she saves the life of a homunculus. The main character is an adorable winged kitten who has just begun the first of her nine lives. The idea behind the book is clever, but the result is confusing and has left me conflicted in regards to my feelings toward it. He’s mixed just about every fantasy and mythological trope into one story, and therein lies the problem. You know that saying, “everything but the kitchen sink”? This is basically what Nathan Croft has done. The main character dies (more than once) and a few underworlds’ way of death is threatened. Against them are Japanese death gods, an underworld cult, and a fat Atlantean bureaucrat. Near Atlantis’ Chinatown, a kitten and her human campaign for homunculi rights. In a world where every culture’s mythology is real, Medusa’s sisters want revenge on Poseidon, Troy is under siege again, and the Yakuza want their homunculi (mythological artificial humans) back. Synopsis: Just a typical kitten saves the afterlife story, dddisguised as a book about death. I received this e-book from NetGalley and Curiousity Quills in exchange for an honest review.
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