Despite his advanced age and knowledge, Atticus manages to fit into modern America by taking on the looks and persona of the 21 year old owner of Third Eye Books and Herbs near the campus of Arizona State University. Atticus O’Sullivan is the last of his kind, a 2100 year old Druid who is trying to live a quiet life in Arizona away from the meddling of the gods. Luckily for you, I won’t be making those comparisons myself because I haven’t read Dresden. While undoubtedly Hearne’s most popular series, I initially found him through The Tales of Pell, a trilogy that he co-authored with Delilah Dawson, and then his epic fantasy series The Seven Kennings (both of which I actually liked more than Hounded).īeing an urban fantasy starring a millennia old magic user, you’re going to see a lot of comparisons made between Hounded and the immensely popular Dresden Files by Jim Butcher. I have since learned that this is not (always) the case.
For the longest time, I would see the covers in bookstores and just assume that they were like the fantasy romance novels that I grew up watching my grandmother tear through, one after another. I’ll admit that urban fantasy is one of the genres of speculative fiction that I am the least familiar with. Some people live in extremely small worlds, and some live in a world of infinite possibility.” “The universe is exactly the size that your soul can encompass. Now the determined deity has tracked him down, and Atticus will need all his power-plus the help of a seductive goddess of death, his vampire and werewolf team of attorneys, a bartender possessed by a Hindu witch, and some good old-fashioned luck of the Irish-to kick some Celtic arse and deliver himself from evil. Unfortunately, a very angry Celtic god wants that sword, and he’s hounded Atticus for centuries. Not to mention: He draws his power from the earth, possesses a sharp wit, and wields an even sharper magical sword known as Fragarach, the Answerer. His neighbors and customers think that this handsome, tattooed Irish dude is about twenty-one years old-when in actuality, he’s twenty-one centuries old. Atticus O’Sullivan, last of the Druids, lives peacefully in Arizona, running an occult bookshop and shape-shifting in his spare time to hunt with his Irish wolfhound.
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