Gunmetal Gods (Gunmetal Gods, #1)

P.L. StuartAuthor6 books520 followersJanuary 20, 2022Gods, guns, and gore, with mesmeric, fantastic prose, awesome worldbuilding, amazing characters, entrancing themes, and blistering battle scenes, hypnotic dreamscapes in otherworlds, terrifying imagery of monstrous deities and angels. With all these features, one can see why the grimdark novel "Gunmetal Gods" got the attention of the reviewers in this year's version of Mark Lawrence's Self-Published Fantasy Blog-Off (SPFBO), and why it reached the semi-finals. A book that I can see could have gone even deeper into the contest, this one was red-circled on my TBR after reading the tremendous reviews. Finally I got to read it, and it surely did not disappoint! "You don't refuse a summons from the Shadow of God, even if you're a veteran of twenty battles, with a body count longer than a sheikh's beard."So opens the book, and we are introduced to Kevah immediately, and his POV. He's one of the most famous jannisaries ever, whose renown fo...