• Mass Market Paperback: 320 pages
• Publisher: Del Rey
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0345522494
• ISBN-13: 978-0345522498

Summary: Atticus O’Sullivan, last of the Druids, doesn’t care much for witches. Still, he’s about to “make nice” with the local coven by signing a mutually beneficial non-aggression treaty—when suddenly the witch population in modern day Tempe, Arizona, quadruples overnight. The new girls are not just bad, they’re badasses with a dark history on the German side of WWII.

With a fallen angel feasting on local high school students, a horde of Bacchants blowing in from Vegas with their special brand of deadly decadence, and a dangerously sexy Celtic goddess of fire vying for his attention, Atticus is having trouble scheduling the witch-hunt. But aided by his magical sword, his neighbor’s rocket-propelled grenade launcher, and his vampire attorney, Atticus is ready to sweep the town and show the witchy women they picked the wrong Druid to hex.

Atticus O’Sullivan is back in the second installment of the Iron Druid Chronicles. Once again author Kevin Hearne delivers a fast, action-packed adventure that is unique, clever, and wickedly funny. After killing the Celtic god of love (who as it turns out was a huge dick), Atticus has made a name for himself among the god crowd, which is more trouble than it’s worth. He finds himself caught between a rock and a hard place as two Celtic goddesses vie for his affections and his allegiance. To make matters worse, the deck is stacked against our hero with sex-crazed she-hulks who can bone you to a pulp (literally), a coven of Nazi witches who have an old score to settle, and a needy vampire lawyer with a score to settle against a thunder god.

Juggling several storylines and several different pantheons, Hearne does a good job of pacing the story and its many conflicts. Atticus takes all these obstacles in stride and barely breaks a sweat. Hearne almost makes it all seem too easy for his hero; Atticus keeps stomping on toes, with few consequences for his actions. While it’s a hell of a good time to read, and inventive from a world-building aspect, there’s not a lot of emotional depth to this installment. Still, Hearne knows to how spin a good yarn. Oberon is even more endearing than he was in Hounded, and his conversations with Atticus are always hilarious.

I Give Hexed by Kevin Hearne Four out of Five Stars.

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