For any fans of the Kate Daniels series, a book from Roman's point of view is a great treat. For those not familiar with the world, this book works absolutely fine as a standalone.

Roman is a priest and vessel of Chernabog, God of Darkness, Death and other such fun stuff. Despite living in the middle of heavily-warded woods, an exhausted boy arrives at his house and asks for sanctuary. Offering that sanctuary then brings a whole host of other people, keen to test Roman's defences and patience.

The Kate Daniels world is always great for combining mythology and magic, and this was no exception. This story has a lot of references to Slavic mythology, all of which is well explained. There's also a glossary in the back, which I really should have referred to as it took me a while to get my head round some of the different words.

From a character perspective, Roman was an absolute delight to delve further into. I very much appreciated how thoroughly grumpy he was for most of the book, but that he still took the time to do his duty while sulking.

Thoroughly recommend this to anyone who enjoys mythology-based urban fantasy.

Thank you to the authors and NetGalley for the free digital copy. All thoughts are my own.