Hi Cara,
I have continued on with my Iron Druid binge, with the third book in the series Hammered.
Thor, the Norse god of thunder, is worse than a blowhard and a bully—he’s ruined countless lives and killed scores of innocents.
After centuries, Viking vampire Leif Helgarson is ready to get his vengeance, and he’s asked his friend Atticus O’Sullivan, the last of the Druids, to help take down this Norse nightmare.
One survival strategy has worked for Atticus for more than two thousand years: stay away from the guy with the lightning bolts. But things are heating up in Atticus’s home base of Tempe, Arizona. There’s a vampire turf war brewing and Russian demon hunters who call themselves the Hammers of God are running rampant. Despite multiple warnings and portents of dire consequences, Atticus and Leif journey to the Norse plain of Asgard, where they team up with a werewolf, a sorcerer, and an army of frost giants for an epic showdown against vicious Valkyries, angry gods, and the hammer-wielding Thunder Thug himself.
(Synopsis from Goodreads.com)
Hammered finally brings revenge to Thor to its conclusion. This has been building since book 1 Hounded as Thor is the one God that everyone agrees that they hate him.
In Hammered we find out more about Leif and Gunnar background and why they hate Thor. It a part of the male bonding session with some new and old characters. Although it was interesting, I did feel like it slowed the pace of the story and I did find myself tunning out.
There were some funny moments in the book but less than previous as Oberon and the Widow Macdonagh are in the story less.
The action scenes in Hammered are on point. They are bloody, dangerous and smart. Even funny in parts, an example of this is “Its Hammer time.”
Below are some of my favourite quotes from Hammered;
“Now go and stake some Vamps. Especially the sparkly emo ones.”
“Awesome! I’d just bullied Jesus into doing a shot with me.”
“Occasionally I am smitten with an acute case of smug. It can happen to anyone, but it happens most often to people who think they’ve been especially clever.”
Hammered feels like the catalyst for a lot of change in Atticus and his friends. Trouble is coming, and it’s going to be big.
My rating for Hammered is 4.5 out of 5.
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