The Gods call him the nameless one, others call him the soul eater, both would be right. Kicked out from the underworld and cursed to walk the Earth for eternity, Ace does everything he can to stay away from Gods. Ace tries to spend his time helping people avoid Gods and demons, but not even he can avoid the callings of his ex-wife, Bastet Queen of Cats. Bastet hires Ace to find out who is slaughtering her blessed women and Ave finds himself caught in-between more than one powerful deity.
I picked up this book as I wanted to read something with a Male lead. I really enjoyed this book as it was a lot darker than I thought it would be. I also liked that I had not heard of of the Gods in this book, so their evilness and calculating manners were refreshing. I believe I read in another review that the Gods are from Egypt, which makes since with Bastet, so this now makes them even more interesting to me as I really know nothing about Egyptian Gods. However, I do think that the underworld part of the look was lacking in world building. "Above ground" it is normal with demons and gods roaming around so I was hopeful that DaCosta would expand the underworld. Hopefully in future books in the series she will take us back to the underground and expand on not only the world but the Caste system that appears to be in place there. Really even after this book I feel like the underworld is still a blank slate for her to play with and create.
I liked Ace as a main character, he is almost the anti-hero as he has some dark points of views, really he likes to play if off that he is just out for himself, but he has the ability to see the light of people's souls and he does not want to hurt those who have that lightness. However, he has no qualms with people that he feels need to be killed but due to some unfortunate circumstances some innocents are murdered along the way. His struggle is very interesting in regards to the curse that he is under. He is unable to refuse the bidding of one of the Gods and the pain he goes through when he is forced to do something that he is very much against is very real. You can tell that not all of Ace's powers are displayed in this book and I look forward to learning more about them and his sword.
Did this book need a sex scene? I do not think so, as it did not add anything to the story. I understand why DaCosta had some sex in regards to the Gods, as one was the God of fertility and was just wielding his power over a pitiful human but I do not think that there needed to be one between Ace and Bastet. You could tell where there relationship was before and where it was going with out the scene. As this book is on the shorter side, I can only think that it was included in order to make the book longer.
I liked the darkness that this book has and the interaction between Ace and the Gods, however, I found the world building severely lacking. That said this book was able to keep me entertained and I'm looking forward to continuing on in the series.
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