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Last God Standing (2014)

by Michael Boatman(Favorite Author)

3.3 of 5 Votes: 5

ISBN

085766395X (ISBN13: 9780857663955)

languge

English

genre

Fantasy

publisher

Angry Robot

review 1: All the gods the author can think of: check. Protagonist is a nebbish who exists so things can happen to him: check. His girlfriend is nice but he's going to screw it up at EVERY opportunity: check. I've read this book before!No, I haven't, but it just feels like it. In a book written by a comedian, the comedy-performance parts don't work. And I must have missed why it was necessary, or why it made sense, or why it's what a former deity would do. The plot can't decide if it's going to be a Carl Hiaasen farce or a serious bit of philosophy, and to be both at once you have to be Kurt Vonnegut. The plot was already complex when we were suddenly in an alternate universe going, "WTF?" and we have to invest MANY confusing and not-very-interesting pages before there's an actually... more-not-bad explanation.Each god was decently presented, although Connie seemed to be implausibly powerful considering who the other players were. Angry Robot clearly doesn't use a copy editor, and at times appears not to have even used the spellchecker in the author's writing software. Oddly, quite a few often-bungled words are correct, but I spotted probably 50 - yes, fifty - oopsies throughout. The big face-off was weak, I thought, but so many writers these days struggle with this that I will give a pass here.
review 2: I was going to give it 3-stars but according to Goodreads star rating, 3-stars means I liked it. In fact I couldn't really get very far into it. I wanted to give it 3-stars because there's probably people out there that would really enjoy this, but I couldn't because I couldn't bring myself to say I liked it, especially since I couldn't even read half of it.For me, it tried too hard to be clever. I expected cleverness, but the lengths it went to to be clever were irritating. Since I was irritated, I couldn't enjoy the humor. Sorry. less

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