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I never even knew there was a genre like epic urban fantasy, but apparently there is, and House of Earth and Blood makes it work.

There's angels, demons, werewolves, fairies, merfolk & everything else imaginable, but also sort-of-familiar yet different world and a twisty romance / action / detective plot that I expected to be completely rote yet managed to surprise me a couple of times. Sure, it was over the top at times and somewhat heavy-handed, but damn if I wasn't consistently entertained and never bored.

Even if the main characters were a bit grating in their macho posturing, they were dynamic and consistently took charge of things instead of being meek and whiny. No meek and whiny here, only sexy and badass.

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.