Review: This book deserves a one star review- BEWARE FIVE STAR REVIEWS
Rating: 1 out of 5
Date: 02 12, 2014
The previous books by Connie Suttle had been OK fast, extremely mindless reads.  But this one is terrible.The author needs editors who are not afraid to tell her when she has made a wrong turn and to start over.  She had boxed herself into a corner giving more power to the evil adversary.  So she counteracts this by "promoting" almost all her characters into gods and giving them more power.You will be frustrated with an excess of one sided characters and confusing plot logic.  The author brings back EVERY character she has ever written about, including several she had killed off, and a few new ones.  Even if you have read every one of her books (as I have) expect to be confused.She tries to keep two parallel struggles ongoing one in the "past" and one in the "present" with dozens of characters given time travel powers.  She has a ridiculous crisis because the bad guys create two crises at the same time(?) in the past and present and the good guys  have to split their forces?  Why?  Just deal with present crisis and then everyone go back in time to deal with the past crisis.  Time travel makes everything so simplistic.  When the author has dug herself into a hole she just goes back in time and using god like powers changes everything, bringing characters back to life, changing actions,removing or adding powers, ...  There is no fundamental reality.This series (God Wars) is by far her worst to date and this book brings the series to a new low. In last two books she tries a new writing technique switching viewpoints between multiple characters every few paragraphs or pages. This is terrible reading. If she went a significant length (20 or more pages) between characters and limited it to a few key characters it might be bearable. To further complicate her story line she switches between two different time periods and allows multiple characters to time travel.Only if you have read everything else by the author because you already have so much time invested you can consider wasting a few hours you will never get back.  But even then you will be disappointed. I have read thousands of book and only once did I not finish a book I had started.  (I can't stand an unfinished story).  I almost stopped reading this one several times.  If I had not felt I needed closure on the series I would have stopped.I read the five star reviews to see what they were talking about.  They were almost all only two or three sentences long and I wonder how many read the same book I did.  You do the author no real favors if you provide false praise when they are going in the wrong direction and you may mislead new readers into thinking this is as good as the author gets.