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Actual Rating: 3.5 Stars

I am a lover of mythologies, Greek mythology is my favorite but I like Norse mythology, Egyptian mythology, Indian mythology and others! I personally had an idea for a book of my own to write a book merging all different mythologies into one book and circumstances revealed that this book already exists and it is non other than Paternus. I had to read it when I knew that and I even gave up writing my own book because I thought Ashton would definitely do a better job. I even decided that this will be a pick for my book club and it was.

So the book is divided into 3 parts and most of us in my book club agreed upon those parts. The writing over all is good as the prose itself but part 1 was slow and confusing. Most of the members were confused at this part and we wanted a better understanding of the plot. It felt a bit all over the place to be honest. Now the second part provided this understanding we were looking for, not completely but we were not as confused as in part 1. Part 3 is the best part and it was our favorite part because it had much more action, it made much more sense and things fell into place.

I have much respect for the author for the work he had done in researching all those different mythologies and then making it all work out one way or another. Another thing we agreed upon is that we liked the Flower and Figs much more than the other chapters. Some members skimmed or skipped the latter even. Fortunately, most of the book revolves around those chapters. Once again, the most interesting part was definitely the world-building which obviously took some effort and it shows!

The characters are also well written, I didn’t have strong feelings about them but I liked them. I saw what the reveals were going to be from early on because of the foreshadowing but it is a good feeling when you’re right about those twists!

Summary: I think Paternus was a good introduction to the series, the book obviously was well researched and written with love but I think it should have been a bit more organized. I am still planning to continue the series and I believe it would be even better and I am looking forward to it!