Iron Druid Atticus O'Sullivan, hero of Kevin Hearne's epic New York Times bestselling urban fantasy series, has a point to make - and then drive into a vampire's heart.
When a druid has lived for two thousand years like Atticus, he's bound to run afoul of a few vampires. Make that legions of them. Even his former friend and legal counsel turned out to be a bloodsucking backstabber. Now the toothy troublemakers - led by power-mad Theophilus - have become a huge problem requiring a solution. It's time to make a stand.
As always, Atticus wouldn't mind a little backup. But his allies have problems of their own. Ill-tempered archdruid Owen Kennedy is having a wee bit of troll trouble: turns out when you stiff a troll, it's not water under the bridge. Meanwhile, Granuaile is desperate to free herself of the Norse god Loki's mark and elude his powers of divination - a quest that will bring her face to face with several Slavic nightmares.
As Atticus globetrots to stop his nemesis Theophilus, the journey leads to Rome. What better place to end an immortal than the Eternal City? But poetic justice won't come without a price: In order to defeat Theophilus, Atticus may have to lose an old friend.
Welp. Book #8 means I'm almost to #9 and the end of a series I have loved since I first got an arc way back when. This one I loved, as usual, though I did have a few quibbles. Granuaile and her vengeance didn't quite strike true for me - Fierce Druid was less *fierce* and more *terrible*. However, Owen continues to be one big bag of AWESOME, and I'm pretty sure I'm going to start saying "shite" instead of "shit". Most of my LOL moments were related to him, and I'm anxious to see what happens with him in the last book. I continue to love Atticus, though I was a little less excited about some of his shenanigans in this book - it was a LOT. However, overall - I did enjoy this one and I'm alternately thrilled for and sad about the last book.
