Thank you to NetGalley and the author, Antonio Guadagno, for the opportunity to read this.
This was my first book on the platform, and I was genuinely excited to dive in.

The premise has a lot of potential—the opening chapters, with their vivid setting and the clear distinction between good and evil, immediately pulled me in. Unfortunately, once the story began to unfold, I found the writing becoming inconsistent. The frequent and abrupt scene changes made it difficult to follow, and what might have been intended as suspenseful instead felt disjointed and a bit frustrating.

At times, it felt like the first chapter and the rest of the book were written by two different authors in terms of tone and cohesion. Having said that, I was still invested in the characters and curious to see how they would confront the threat they were facing. I appreciated some of the twists as the plot developed.

As for the ending—I genuinely wondered whether I received the full version. The book seemed to end very suddenly, without a clear resolution or even a closing paragraph to signal that this was the intended stopping point. Since it’s labeled as Book One, I assume a sequel is coming, but I do think the reading experience would benefit from at least a brief wrap-up or note confirming that this is the end of Part One.

I’ll be keeping an eye out for the next instalment—I do think there’s an interesting story here, and I’m hopeful the second book will bring out more of that potential.

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

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).