Apart from being brilliant and magically gifted, my archdruid had frequently been abusive and had made few friends during his life-a life that, until recently, I thought had ended millennia ago. The ancient man who was pushing himself up into a sitting position in front of me triggered very few memories of the warm sort. More often, however, they have the sting of hoarfrost, which bites at first, then numbs and settles in the bones for a deep, extended chill. Sometimes the memories are warm and blanket us like a mother’s love. I’m not saying those memories are necessarily good ones they’re simply old and tend to cast us back into roles we thought we grew out of long ago.
“This series just gets bigger and better, and Shattered shows no signs of it slowing down.Few things trigger old memories so quickly as authority figures from our youth. has the feeling of a new beginning for its hero and for the series.”- RT Book Reviews “Uproariously entertaining in a way that Hearne is uniquely able to achieve. Even with the help of the witch Laksha, Granuaile may be facing a crushing defeat.Īs the trio of Druids deals with pestilence-spreading demons, bacon-loving yeti, fierce flying foxes, and frenzied Fae, they’re hoping that this time, three’s a charm. Granuaile faces a great challenge: to exorcise a sorcerer’s spirit that is possessing her father in India. But Atticus isn’t the only one with daddy issues. Norse god Loki-or merely a pain in the arse. For Atticus, the jury’s still out on whether the wily old coot will be an asset in the epic battle with the Between busting Atticus’s chops and trying to fathom a cell phone, Owen must also learn English. What’s more, Atticus has defrosted an archdruid frozen in time long ago, a father figure (of sorts) who now goes by the modern equivalent of his old Irish name: Owen Kennedy.Ītticus takes pleasure in the role reversal, as the student is now the teacher. plenty of action, humor, and mythology.”- Booklist (starred review)Ītticus’s apprentice Granuaile is at last a full Druid herself. In the seventh book in The Iron Druid Chronicles, two-thousand-year-old Druid Atticus O’Sullivan and his apprentice Granuaile take on an ancient plague-summoning demon and confront a rebellion of the Fae in Tír na nóg.
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