No Gods, No Monsters

How it reads

No Gods, No Monsters is fantasy (urban fantasy, specifically), and its dominant mood is tense. The suspense is the kind you feel in your shoulders. The pace is moderate — neither a page-turner nor a slow burn — so it holds up whether you read it in long sittings or short ones.

It's set in a big city setting, in the present day, told in the third person across several viewpoints. Its central concerns are identity, power and politics and justice. In weight it's heavy and literary — denser, more serious, and more demanding of you.

It opens a series. It ends on a cliffhanger, so have the next book ready. At 387 pages it's an ordinary novel's length. It's moderately known: read by plenty of people, but not a household name.