David Mogo - Kirjakasa

dare reviewed David Mogo by Suyi Davies Okungbowa

Wish it was better

2 stars

I don't usually give 2 stars to books unless they're really incompetently written or personally offensive, which this book wasn't. Still, somehow David Mogo - Godhunter left me utterly unmoved and uninterested. Nothing here seemed to have a shred of charm or personality, stuff kept happening with somewhat annoying predictability and ... I don't know, I don't even think this is urban fantasy, it's just straight fantasy where the fantastical stomps all over the familiar, until you might as well be reading high fantasy. Not my thing.

enne📚 reviewed David Mogo by Suyi Davies Okungbowa

David Mogo: Godhunter

3 stars

(Reposting this here to keep all my book reviews in one place, sorry!)

David Mogo Godhunter is a urban fantasy book about a demigod living in post-apocalyptic Nigeria. Gods and godlings have invaded and taken over and destroyed large parts of Lagos, and David is scraping out a living capturing wayward godlings that are causing trouble.

The strongest part of the book for me was the Lagos setting, of its island and mainland, and its observations about culture even in a post-apocalyptic world. It's just got such a solid sense of place running through the whole book.

The beginning of the book hooked me with David getting forced into a job he doesn't want to take, but the middle and end got very muddy plot-wise and character-wise. Some of this is that due to some plot it felt like David became a different (and less likeable) character. I think also …

(Reposting this here to keep all my book reviews in one place, sorry!)

David Mogo Godhunter is a urban fantasy book about a demigod living in post-apocalyptic Nigeria. Gods and godlings have invaded and taken over and destroyed large parts of Lagos, and David is scraping out a living capturing wayward godlings that are causing trouble.

The strongest part of the book for me was the Lagos setting, of its island and mainland, and its observations about culture even in a post-apocalyptic world. It's just got such a solid sense of place running through the whole book.

The beginning of the book hooked me with David getting forced into a job he doesn't want to take, but the middle and end got very muddy plot-wise and character-wise. Some of this is that due to some plot it felt like David became a different (and less likeable) character. I think also maybe this story hewed too close to some shonen anime-esque superhero conflict arc for my tastes.

(Also, and this is minor and petty, but cis authors stop making references to the transphobic wizard lady books challenge [impossible])

betty@bookwyrm.social reviewed David Mogo by Suyi Davies Okungbowa

Review of 'David Mogo' on 'Goodreads'

3 stars

Back cover calls it ”a Nigerian Harry Dresden," which, ouch.