I was intrigued by the fantasy elements in an urban setting, and was trying to figure out if it was a werewolf story. While it took me a while to get used to the perspective, I found Paternus to be a swift-paced, fascinating story, written in vibrant prose. That said, I’ve never been accused of being fair. Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy is the gold standard in executing the latter brilliantly and since nothing quite compares to Douglas Adam’s masterpiece, it would be unfair to compare Paternus to it. Dipping into many characters’ thoughts in quick succession. From my personal preferences of fantasy fiction, two aspects, one after the other, dug Paternus into a deep hole: Third Person Present Tense. It sat in my queue a few weeks while I finished Orconomics and then Sufficiently Advanced Magic, and by the time I downloaded Paternus, I still knew nothing about it. Dyrk Ashton stepped up to the plate with Paternus, a title I’d heard lauded enough times that I couldn’t turn it down-that, despite having only guesses what it was about (a father figure, right? I know my Latin roots!). Likewise, Sigil offered ebooks, but I wielded the might of Fantasy-Faction’s name to ask for audiobooks. Offered a mini Hershey’s Bar, I would seize a handful of full-sized ones. When Sigil Independent offered me free books to review, I felt like a kid going out on Halloween.
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