War of Gods

I was thinking 4.5, but I guess those were just nitpickings on my part, I grew up to stories of gods, devils and etc. I am a proud Chinese Filipino individual(a bit of here and there, but Lam-ang alone, I gave this book a 4, to be able to correctly identify Filipino, as against Philipino or the other ehem, ethnic term. This one deserves a round of applause and BRAVO!!!! And you proceeded to describe him, commit some paragraphs and to read his actions on an Ashtonversian saga!!!!)

Sacrifice, sacrifice to achieve something, to walk down the good path, to seek out the twisting and dark road, the whole Ashtonverse (Dyrk Ashton's universe, I hope I am not insulting, I tend to think of each Author's creation as a universe) has always been about this. The Pater's patermentia, sacrificing his long life to periods of dementia(either voluntary or not)to come back better/worse, Khagan's sacrifice, to hurt the Pater, for what he did to Khagan, Billy/Samson's sacrifice, Arges and a lot more, to think you have these Gods, Goddesses, Ancient and True Ancients, this beings should be invincible, omniscient, omnipotent, and yet SACRIFICE!!!!!

While reading the first and second book, “Oh ok”, “Now this is the good stuff”!!!, “Whoaaaaaa, really”???!!!! These were the words floating in my head or sometimes just blurt out.......but the last book, it was all definitely “WOW”, THAT GOOD!!!! All expectations were turned inside-out, dragged from left to right, then spin cycled, those last few chapters, gut wrenching and heart breaking!!!! (Damn!!!! Gods, Goddesses, death was not supposed to touch them???!!!!!!)

In the end, we had to have finality, was I satisfied with the ending, uhhhhhhhh, I guess, so hard to say, all that happened in the final book, I wanted to rant, to rave, sigghhhhhh........sacrifice, for the betterment of everyone...

Mr. Ashton, a heartfelt THANK YOU!!!! A wonderful epic!!!

Unbeatable forces pounding on each other with no hope of an effect... then bang, one dies with no real buildup or legitimate explanation of how they were overcome. Just this time the claws pierced skin. Think poorly done superhero's with no real moral compass.

Half the book is the final battle. But it's a series of sequential one on one fights with everyone else looking on. Then the thing they have been saying is impossible the whole time? Completely doable with relatively zero cost. Then, we win!

Lame. Very very lame. Almost went two stars (disliked) but left it at three (it was OK) because some of the characters have more than a single dimension and/or are funny.