Leigh W's Reviews > The Antiheroes

Dannen Ateran's day just keeps getting stranger. After he wakes up in an alley from a drunken bar fight that he can't remember and running from the local authorities, Dannen finally meets someone - well something - that he has never met before, a god. His first reaction is to laugh, he is a washed up hero with too many ghosts following him, what god would want to task him with a quest? Well, turns out he isn't the first choice let alone the 5th or 6th one, closer to being around their 100th. But he figures Death is catching up with him anyway, may as well go out in one last blaze of doing the right thing. The quest comes with conditions though, he has to find some specific people to join him on this adventure. The names and skills seem okay at first but when he sees a certain mage's name he has second thoughts. Cause if anyone can create a bigger mess than The Bloody Butcher it's Fedder Firemaker. Fedder is a talented mage that thinks magic is for sissies and rather use his fists in a fight. They also need to find an assassin with a unique quirk and a druid who apparently can also speak with animals. Dannen can already feel his headache starting.

I love a good found family trope and love some good quirky humor. This has a great set up with all those things. However, for me this just didn't quite hit the humor mark I was wanting. It felt more heavy on the regret and seeing Dannen move through some of his darker self-reflections and learning some growth. Which I am all for but I was expecting more humor mixed in. I was also let down on another aspect that would be a spoiler so I won't go too much into that here. Fedder's blunt and directness was fun and created some interesting comic relief in stressful situations. I enjoyed the character of Tesler and wished he got a bit more time, maybe in the next books.