Seeing as of how unlocking Morrigan in Marvel vs. But again, most of the emphasis is on the Celtic pantheon. Almost like American Gods without nearly as much thought or research put into it. Hounded is one of those ‘kitchen sink’ kinds of Urban Fantasies– this time with a little more emphasis on various pantheons, name-dropping everyone from Coyote to Apollo to Thor. Still, Atticus at least has some help in the form of a vampire lawyer (who’s part of a firm owned by a werewolf), the spirit of an Indian (south-Asian Indian, that is– not Navajo) witch possessing a sexy bartender, and Atticus’ talking (well, psychically talking) dog Oberon. He also has to deal with the cops as well, which honestly you don’t see too often in a lot of Urban Fantasy books that have demons or whatever conveniently disintegrating once you kill them.
The book kicks off with Aenghus Og finally figuring out Atticus’ location, at which point Atticus has to deal with various monsters and gods of Irish mythology coming for him. He stole a magic sword from Aenghus Og, the Irish god of love, way back when the Roman Empire was still a thing, and some centuries later he’s holed up running a bookstore in Tempe Arizona, because, well, this is an Urban Fantasy book.
Atticus can do the typical druid stuff: he talks to animals, shapeshifts, draws power from the earth, and all the other stuff that makes that character class overpowered in D&D. Hounded is the first in the series, centering on the Atticus O’Sullivan, the titular Iron Druid. That the timing worked out for the holiday is entirely accidental, however. Patrick’s day.Īnyway, a friend of mine absolutely loves Kevin Hearne’s Iron Druid series (though even then she admits they’re not very deep), so I figured I’d check it out. I mean, I make it a point not to drink green beer, so I guess this review will be most of how I celebrate St. Oh hey, I’m vaguely topical for once! As today’s book review covers some vaguely Irish-flavored Urban Fantasy.
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