Staked (The Iron Druid Chronicles, #8) in SOS: Serious Overload of Series

Feb 13, 2016 Chompa rated it really liked it

Shelves: urban-fantasy, 2016

I do really enjoy this series. But the problem is I gobble them up a bit too fast. The writing is very solid and flows well. The plotting is excellent (this one in particular) and the characters are very enjoyable.

This book alternates chapters from the perspectives of Atticus, Granuaile and Owen. All three very different and all three hold my interest (this isn't always the case in shifting perspectives in novels). The fact they are all three doing different things, which lead up to the group c ...more

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Jun 16, 2015 Katyana rated it really liked it

Shelves: fantasy

I love Atticus. I love Oberon. I love most of the secondary characters.

But for the last couple books, I've had a major problem: I don't like Granuaile. I liked her until we started getting chapters from her POV. But her self-righteous, condescending inner monologue killed her for me. Silly Atticus, constantly getting into his petty fights... says the girl obsessed with payback against the stepfather who just didn't love her. *sigh*

I'm not saying her stepfather is a good guy - he's a Grade A douc I love Atticus. I love Oberon. I love most of the secondary characters.

But for the last couple books, I've had a major problem: I don't like Granuaile. I liked her until we started getting chapters from her POV. But her self-righteous, condescending inner monologue killed her for me. Silly Atticus, constantly getting into his petty fights... says the girl obsessed with payback against the stepfather who just didn't love her. *sigh*

I'm not saying her stepfather is a good guy - he's a Grade A douche - but the fact that she's virtually rolling her eyes at Atticus for wanting to kill the dude who attempted genocide on the Druids while she engages in her petty revenge fantasies against her stepfather made me hope she got killed. I can't take much more of her, and it would be a shame if she killed this series for me. The constant with Granuaile is: she's off doing stuff she wants to do for herself, while Atticus is off preventing war with the dark elves or preventing the vampires from wiping out the last Druids. But Granuaile, with her annoying inner prattle, talks about Atticus as if he is some big child who can't help himself, and has to keep running off to find trouble. No Granuaile. Despite your attempt to treat other, experienced Druids as if they have no idea what they should be doing with their power, Atticus and Owen are actually doing things that are larger than themselves and their own petty gratification.

I also don't get (view spoiler) Atticus is taken for granted, by everyone around him, and I'm tired of it. We're 8 books in now, and it has become beyond tiresome.

Everything but Granuaile: 5 stars
Granuaile: -5 stars ...more

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Oct 08, 2025 Midu Hadi rated it liked it

Shelves: missing-shelf, middlers, reviewed, shifters, vampires-and-other-bloodsuckers, magick, deities, magical-objects, talking-cats-other-animals, supes

Quick-look at the Book
Aaaaaaaand Atticus causes yet another friend his life when he takes on the entire Vampire race. He muddles things up even more by promising his friendly witch coven something that'll be very difficult to deliver.

Owen faces his own challenges and has his own triumphs, raising a new generation of Druids.

Same goes for Granuaile, who now bears Loki's mark, and will go to any length to get rid of it.

Thoughts on this Series
I like the premise. I even like the situations the prot ...more

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