Kevin HearneFantasy · Fiction·b. 1970
Shattered
Synopsis
Atticus O'Sullivan, a Druid about two thousand years old, has brought the ancient archdruid Owen Kennedy back to life. Owen now has to pick up English and learn how the modern world works, cell phones included, while the three Druids get ready for a battle with the Norse god Loki.
Trouble arrives from several directions at once. A demon who summons plague is loose, and a Fae rebellion is brewing in Tír na nÓg. Atticus's apprentice Granuaile, now a full Druid herself, is caught up in both.
Granuaile also has a private task in India. A sorcerer's spirit has possessed her father, and she must drive it out with the help of a witch named Laksha. Along the way the group runs into demons, yeti, flying foxes and frenzied Fae.
This is the seventh Iron Druid Chronicles novel, an urban fantasy series that sets Celtic and world mythology in a modern world. Atticus narrates in the first person with a wry voice, and the story moves between Ireland's Fae realm, India and the build-up to the Loki fight. The open question is whether three Druids can hold together against all of it.
How it reads
Prose complexity 5/10
























