{"id":5049,"date":"2020-05-29T20:40:28","date_gmt":"2020-05-30T03:40:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.llamareadsbooks.com\/blog\/?p=5049"},"modified":"2020-05-29T20:49:26","modified_gmt":"2020-05-30T03:49:26","slug":"review-shadow-of-a-dead-god-patrick-samphire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.llamareadsbooks.com\/blog\/index.php\/2020\/05\/29\/review-shadow-of-a-dead-god-patrick-samphire\/","title":{"rendered":"Review: Shadow of a Dead God &#8211; Patrick Samphire"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"bookreview\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.llamareadsbooks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/53346109._SY475_.jpg?w=1280\" alt=\"Review: Shadow of a Dead God &#8211; Patrick Samphire\" title=\"Review: Shadow of a Dead God &#8211; Patrick Samphire\" class=\"ubb-cover-image alignright\"><strong>Shadow of a Dead God<\/strong><br>by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.llamareadsbooks.com\/blog\/index.php\/reviews\/authors\/patrick-samphire\/\">Patrick Samphire<\/a> <br><strong>Series:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.llamareadsbooks.com\/blog\/index.php\/reviews\/series\/mennik-thorn\/\">Mennik Thorn #1<\/a> <br><strong>Publisher:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.llamareadsbooks.com\/blog\/index.php\/reviews\/publishers\/five-fathoms-press\/\">Five Fathoms Press<\/a> <br><strong>Publication Date:<\/strong> May 27, 2020 <br><strong>Genres:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.llamareadsbooks.com\/blog\/index.php\/reviews\/genres\/fantasy\/\">Fantasy<\/a> <br><strong>Pages:<\/strong> 362 <br><strong>Source:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.llamareadsbooks.com\/blog\/index.php\/reviews\/sources\/publisher\/\">Publisher<\/a> <br><br><p>I received this book for free from Publisher in exchange for an honest review. This does not affect my opinion of the book or the content of my review.<\/p>My rating: <span class=\"ubb-buy\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.llamareadsbooks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/llama-40.png?fit=31%2C40&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"One Star\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.llamareadsbooks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/llama-40.png?fit=31%2C40&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"One Star\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.llamareadsbooks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/llama-40.png?fit=31%2C40&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"One Star\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.llamareadsbooks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/llama-40.png?fit=31%2C40&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"One Star\"><\/span><br><br><br><blockquote class=\"ubb-synopsis\"><p><b>Agatos, the White City. Wealthy, diverse, rich in history, and lousy with the power of dead gods.<\/b><\/p>\n<p>It was only supposed to be one little job \u2013 a simple curse-breaking for Mennik Thorn to pay back a favor to his oldest friend. But then it all blew up in his face. Now he's been framed for a murder he didn't commit.<\/p>\n<p>So how is a second-rate mage, broke, traumatized, and with a habit of annoying the wrong people supposed to prove his innocence when everyone believes he's guilty?<\/p>\n<p>Mennik only has one choice: to throw himself back into the corrupt world of the city's high mages, a world he fled years ago. Faced by supernatural beasts, the mage-killing Ash Guard, and a ruthless, unknown adversary, it's going to take every trick Mennik can summon just to keep him and his friend alive.<\/p>\n<p>But a new, dark power is rising in Agatos, and all that stands in its way is one damaged mage\u2026<\/p>\n<\/blockquote><center><span class=\"ubb-buy\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B0888RFP2C\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.llamareadsbooks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/amazon.png?w=1280\" alt=\"Amazon\"><\/a><\/span><\/center><center><a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/book\/show\/53346109-shadow-of-a-dead-god\" target=\"_blank\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.llamareadsbooks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/widget_logo.gif?w=1280\" alt=\"Goodreads\"><\/a><br><\/center><center><p class=\"ubb-buy\"><div class=\"ubb-icon-tags\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.llamareadsbooks.com\/blog\/index.php\/reviews\/book-tags\/4stars\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"80\" height=\"100\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.llamareadsbooks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/categories_0000s_0003_4-stars.png?fit=80%2C100&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"attachment-full size-full\" alt=\"4 stars icon\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.llamareadsbooks.com\/blog\/index.php\/reviews\/book-tags\/fantasy\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"80\" height=\"100\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.llamareadsbooks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/categories_0000s_0011_fantasy.png?fit=80%2C100&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"attachment-full size-full\" alt=\"fantasy icon\" \/><\/a><\/div><\/p><\/div><\/center><br>\t\t<script type=\"application\/ld+json\">\n{\n\t\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\n\t\"@type\":\"Review\",\n\t\"datePublished\": \"2020-05-30T03:40:28+00:00\",\n\t\"description\": \"\\r\\n\\r\\nWhen one of your favorite authors says her husband is coming out with a book and it's awesome, well, what else can you do but read it? 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This book is so much fun &#8211; a snarky down-on-his-luck hero, an investigation with high stakes, and quirky side characters!<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cPeople tend to say as little as possible to the Ash Guard \u2014 well, smart people; not you, obviously \u2014 and when they do answer, they lie more often than not, even when they\u2019re innocent.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Mennik is, to put it indelicately, a screw-up. He&#8217;s not great as a mage, and as an investigator, well, he sucks. He stumbles on most of his leads by accident and does a lot more running away and getting beaten up than actual fighting. He fully admits &#8211; and embraces &#8211; that he&#8217;s a second-rate mage, but rather than doing the usual thing and just worker bee-ing it away as a cog in the machine for one of the high mages, he&#8217;s set off on his own, where he does such exciting work as spending the night shoved in a pantry trying to catch a ghost. But while he may be a second-rate everything else, he&#8217;s a first rate friend. When he and his best friend Benny are framed for a murder during a heist gone wrong, he knows it&#8217;s his responsibility to clear their names. While he&#8217;s short on clues, he&#8217;s got some &#8220;help&#8221; in the form of Benny&#8217;s murderous tween daughter, Sereh, and Meroi, the captain of the Ash Guard, who are charged with policing magical crimes. Of course, there&#8217;s also the three powerful high mages, each of whom has competing interests but who all seem to have it out for Nik.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cThere were three ways to make a lot of money in Agatos: politics, crime, and commerce, although some would argue they were basically the same thing.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I loved the worldbuilding &#8211; the history of Agatos, its political structure with the high mages, and all the different gods, goddesses and feasts. 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