It’s not often I find myself giving up on big books. In fact, the bigger the better, I actually find it much more satisfying to have a lot of story content to read.

But this one just didn’t make it. It was all fun and excitement, until it crashed.

It wasn’t so much the story, as it was the characters. A certain character in particular. Kes. I was all in for the lore, and the dialogues, and the character development, and any other character BUT her. Unfortunately, she’s one of the main leads, so I had to see her almost at every turn of the page.

Kes was a disaster of a lead character. She was petty, and whiny, and she was difficult to deal with. She kept being distant, lashing out at anyone who dared to try and help or console her. She wasn’t just a loner – she was a brat. She got into trouble every other page, and if she was alone, that would have been fine, but she had others in her group who got to experience crap because of her, and there was a whole nation depending on said group succeeding on their mission. The readers kept being promised that there was more to her, the trauma and the tragic past, but we never saw more than glimpses, and it was frustrating. It did nothing to alleviate my anger at her attitude, or explain why she had it in the first place.

I hoped there would be some kind of growth as the story went on, but I was disappointed to find out that, by the mark of 52% of the book, there was none. I stopped reading right when she brought those men to their inn and they had to separate. At that moment, I really felt for Lazden, because he was right: she kept dragging them in her own schemes with no consideration, but had no qualms in being bitchy when they tried to do the same. Honestly, it got tiring at that point and I had to step back and away before I threw my laptop outta the window.

I won’t be reading anymore of this or the rest of the series, I don’t think it’s for me.

***I was given an ARC from the publisher via NetGalley in exchange for an honest review. The opinion stated in this review is solely mine, and no compensation was given or taken to alter it.***

A God Among Thieves is a new fantasy story set in the Middle East and this alone was super cool! I haven't read a book in this setting in far too long so my mind was entranced already.

After a couple chapters unfortunately the story started falling apart for me. The characters fell flat and the story seemed to be going around in circles and wasn't giving me what I wanted. I also found it a bit confusing. The whole idea surrounding this story is that our main characters are fighting gods and one of these gods wants to defect to the human's side and our band have to journey to bring her back to their city.

I did really enjoy the authors writing style. It's full of lyrical prose and clever word play and is what hooked me to keep reading until the end but I didn't really care that much for the ending in all honesty.

This book was the only real bust this month. It wasn’t bad per say, I just didn’t really enjoy it. Set in a world where humans have recently created muskets and cannons are now fighting (and very rarely) killing the gods that they are fighting. This entire book revolves around the idea of one of these gods wants to defect to the human’s side and our band of main characters has to journey to bring her back to their city. But where this one fell flat is the characters. I didn’t care for any of them. One of the main characters, Kes, is such a little brat that I couldn’t stand her. So much of her history is cloaked in mystery. And so little is given out even though she continues to hurt the other characters. I’m all for characters being shitty people, but you better give me a reason. It also took me quite awhile to figure out which person was which. Some of the names are sort of similar and there wasn’t really an expatiation of who the people were. You just had to figure it out along the way. But for me it took too long. I doubt I will pick up the next book.

I wanted to love this , and while the setting was interesting, and the characters had potential, I wasn't able to enjoy this one. I just couldn't stay focused and soon became bored.

I felt like this book was lacking some direction and it failed to connect with me while I was reading it. Because of this I simply did not enjoy it. Thank you for giving me a chance to read it.