Blog Tour | The Pantheon Series

Hello, welcome to my post on the blog tour of The Pantheon Series by C.F. Barrington. Thank you to Head of Zeus for organising! Read on for my thoughts about this fantasy series set in Edinburgh.

Thank you to Jade and Head of Zeus for sending me The Wolf Mile and The Blood Isles to read and review, and for inviting me to be a part of the blog tour of The Pantheon Series.

This is a fascinating fantasy series set in an alternative Edinburgh where 2 armies fight to the death in an underground series of Games. Calling upon Ancient Roman and greek history, the Pantheon Games are a lucrative yet gruesome series of trials and a final battle to survive and be victorious.

I love a fantasy novel set in Scotland, I love recognising locations and having fantasy elements meet the mundane is something I love to read. This series makes use of Edinburgh, and further afield in Scotland really well, you get a real sense of the ruggedness of the Highlands. I love being able to recognise places in the series, and try to figure out whether the secret tunnels actually exist or whether the author has created them himself!!

These books are non-stop action from page 1. The pace is breakneck until the very last page. We get a training montage at the beginning of book 1, but from the end of that montage the action is non-stop. The danger seems to increase with every page and it is a breathless rush through the streets of Edinburgh!

This book has definite found family vibes, which is one of my favourite tropes in books! I really liked the box of characters in this series. Tyler and Lana are the main characters, and I loved getting to know them better. We still don’t know everything about either of the characters and their background, which I like. It adds a lot of mystery to the characters, and I enjoy figuring things out as we go! There is also quite a large group of side characters, both friends and enemies of our main characters. These are all very well developed, some are very dislikable, and some I ended up caring for quite a lot!

Overall I really enjoyed this series a lot! It is a very dramatic and violent series, which I couldn’t put down. There is one final book to come in this series, which I cannot wait to get reading!

Buy The Wolf Mile from Bookshop.org or Waterstones.

Buy The Blood Isles from Bookshop.org or Waterstones

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