Definitely quite strange and unique. I highly appreciate that in today's world of homogeneous fiction. I highly recommend this book.

This was a strong start to the Pithos Dominion series, it had everything that I was expecting and worked well in this genre. I enjoyed the horror elements and that the stories weren’t just a story. I was invested in what was going on and enjoyed what I read.

I had such high hopes for this book, but it just goes to show you shouldn’t judge a book by its cover, negatively or positively.

I had a few issues with it.

The first one being that it’s FAR too complicated. There were too many I don’t know what to call them…. beings? Humans, zombies, revenant, vampires, pirates, mafia gangs. Then there were seers, speakers etc following from that and more. I just wish the author had picked one or two and left it at that.

My second issue was the way it was written was confusing. I feel like a bit more spacing maybe throughout the chapters may have helped, or just better organisation of what was in them. In most of the chapters, the POV changed literally from one line to the next, it was very unclear.

My third issue is there were too many random people being brought into the mix with zero explanation. I still don’t understand who Alfred was?! Also, if there is a clear obstacle in the story, don’t just throw a random new character in who can fix it straight away, end of scene. It just felt a bit like characters were created for that part of the scene not the actual story.

My very last small issue was that the characters seemed to have EVERYTHING they needed without any explanation as to how? Which really bugged me.

Overall I’m sorry this is such a negative review, but that was a difficult read and I won’t be continuing this series (If it does continue).

First of all, thank you for NetGalley and the author, Antonio Guadagno to allow me to read this. It was my first book on the platform, and I was very eager to read it as soon as possible.

In my opinion there is a huge potential in the story, the first couple pages explaining the scenery, the characters on the good and bad side sucked me in completely.
Unfortunately, when the story started out, the writing turned very inconsistent, and jumped from scene to scene, which also happened way too often and made it hard for me to follow (I guess it meant to be more suspenseful this way?) For me, the effect was more annoying than suspenseful.

In a way I also felt like the story itself and the first chapter was written by 2 different people, but I was invested in figuring out what happens to the characters, how will they deal with the evil they were against, and I appreciated the surprise elements as the story unfolded.

As for the “end” : I questioned whether I received a complete version, because it felt incomplete, as the writing just suddenly stopped.. This meant to be book one, as it read on the first page and probably a second part is coming, however, the “ending” (if I can call it that) was very disappointing this way.

Maybe I’m missing a closing paragraph or page letting me know that this was it, perhaps in the final version that’s the case - if not, I think there should be so at least a closing page or paragraph so the reader doesn’t feel like they missed a page.

I will be looking out for the second book to see whether it was successful to bring out the story’s potential!