No Gods, No Monsters

This is the kind of book that sounds amazing on the surface, and maybe when you start your journey reading it it is - Turnbull does indeed have a way with words, and the characters are interesting - but the overall flow of the book and the often jarring split between first and third person povs made it hard for me to get through or feel motivated to pick up.

I always enjoy books that are set in the surrounding Boston area! I've lived here for the last 6 years and it's always so cool to see places I know in books. This book had really great political undertones and I loved how the author made the monsters just so normal. The writing was so well done as well.




Thank you to Blackstone Publishing and NetGalley for providing me with an Audiobook copy to review.

I am a big fan of monsters. I believe that there are unexplained beings all around us and there are things we don't understand. I don't believe that we are the only intelligent being in the universe. If you are like me, I think you would enjoy this book.

This book combines fantasy and the real world issues that we are facing today, but puts different faces to them. What do you think would happen if it was revealed on a global scale that monsters existed? And as you're trying to get a handle on that all of a sudden all of the proof is wiped from existence and all you're left with is the question of what you actually saw. A question if you just conjured those images in your mind or if you did see it and you realize there is a force powerful enough to wipe viral videos from existence (we all know how hard, if not impossible, that is).

This book has a lot of points of views. I think this helps with getting the full scope of the story and seeing the way it affects different people that are within this story. This allows for empathy and clearly is something I wish we had today - a way to see an issue from all sides. However, this does add to the confusion. This book is kind of all over the place which I think is also the allure of it. It's from many different perspectives and it goes between different time lines, different universes, and doesn't fully explain each monster and god. Instead, it gives you tid bits that you won't understand without following the whole book. There are still things left open ended that hopefully future books (this is meant to be a series) will address.

Overall, I enjoyed this. Once I got the rhythm of the writing and understand each POV, their roll (as much as I could understand) and how they related to each other I thought this was an incredibly interesting book. This was an audio book for me and the narrator did a fantastic job as well.

Thank you Netgalley and Blackstone Publishing for an advanced eCopy for an honest review.

It took me a while to read this, not because it's not good because it's actually great, but because I was on vacation and felt like doing nothing. Not even reading! Weird!

Anyway, this is a great urban fantasy/cosmic horror with monsters and shifters and secret societies. If that's your jam, check this out!