Shadow of a Dead God by Patrick Samphire, Review+Giveaway



Shadow of a Dead God: A Mennik Thorn Novel by Patrick Samphire
Published: May 27, 2020
Genre: Fantasy
Age Group: Adult
Pages: 460



Blurb:

A dead god. A brutal murder. One second-rate mage.

It was only supposed to be one little job – a simple curse-breaking for Mennik Thorn to pay back a favour 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.

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?

Mennik has no choice if he is going to get out of this: he will have to throw himself 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.

But a new, dark power is rising in Agatos, and all that stands in its way is one damaged mage…


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Review:

Do you like a mystery intertwined with your fantasy???

Then step right up, Shadow of a Dead God might just be for you!!!! 

Mennik Thorn, or Nik for short,is a mage. A mage for hire, freelancer. He is not the best of mages and he himself knows this. He's the mage that the other mages tend to look their noses down at. He's just been fired without payment, he's behind on rent. His luck seems to always be down. But he is a loyal friend, and well things can't get any worse??

Enter Benny, Nik's longest and well only friend. Here's the thing about Benny he's a thief, and he needs a favor from Nik, help to steal an item that is cursed. All Nik needs to do is break the curse, but here's the catch, said item is owned by one of the most powerful high mages in Agatos. 

What can go wrong?

Patrick Samphire has written characters that you just want to know more about. I can't help but like Nik, I found to him to be a lot like Harry Dresden minus his bad bits of Harry. Which for me was like a taking a sip of refreshing water (Not hating on Mr. Dresden but he's got a few things to work on). I enjoyed this character, I would like to know more about him and this world.  Benny and his eleven year old daughter Sereh who will cut you before you know she's there, the Ash Gaurd, Mica his sister. Just to name a few. 

Shadow of a Dead God is fill with twists, turns,  and I didn't expect that moments and oh yes before I forget ghosts. A mystery with mysteries with in it's pages. This will be a series to continue on with. Book 2 Nectar of the Gods is coming 2021 


Meet the Author:



Patrick Samphire started writing when he was fourteen years old and thought it would be a good way of getting out of English lessons. It didn’t work, but he kept on writing anyway.


He has lived in Zambia, Guyana, Austria and England. He has been charged at by a buffalo and, once, when he sat on a camel, he cried. He was only a kid. Don’t make this weird.

Patrick has worked as a teacher, an editor and publisher of physics journals, a marketing minion, and a pen pusher (real job!). Now, when he’s not writing, he designs websites and book covers. He has a PhD in theoretical physics, which means that all the unlikely science in his books is actually true. Well, most of it. Well, some of it. Maybe.

Patrick now lives in Wales, U.K. with his wife, the awesome writer Stephanie Burgis, their two sons, and their cat, Pebbles. Right now, in Wales, it is almost certainly raining.

He has published almost twenty short stories and novellas in magazines and anthologies, including Realms of Fantasy, Interzone, Strange Horizons, and The Year’s Best Fantasy, as well as one fantasy novel for adults, SHADOW OF A DEAD GOD, and two novels for children, SECRETS OF THE DRAGON TOMB and THE EMPEROR OF MARS.


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