The Iron Hound

No Sophomore jinx here. Tim Akers delivers on the promise of THE PAGAN NIGHT with the 2nd volume in the Hallowed War. The Celestial Church continues its pogrom against the peoples and the GODS of all pagan religions with no care or worries about the devastation to the world that they will leave in t......more

A decent follow up effort to the first book, the younger characters get more page space as they go on their respective quests. One annoying thing is that the Gods and the Gheists are never really properly explained, so the cosmology of Akers' universe is fuzzy, to say the least. Elsa and Lucas still......more

In a fit of whimsy, I hereby announce I will give everyone five stars, but the reviews may not reflect it. I really liked The Pagan Night, a tale of the new religion trying to crush the old. Pagan Night was book 1 in the series, but The Iron Hound suffered a bit from middle-book syndrome. There was a......more

Published 2017. Upfront I'll tell you I'm an Akers fan. A good continuation to the Hallowed War series. Some drawbacks - all the heresy across the board with the contesting (and sometimes confusing) different beliefs plus the descriptive of the word "snort" for dialogue of many characters. Probably......more

An aging man’s memory ... No spoilers ... hard to remember characters having taken only a month between book one and this. Nowhere near the agony of a billion characters from George Martin, but there seem to be an annoying abundance of sub characters to recall as we move on.......more