Lord of the Crooked Paths (including Master of the Fearful Depths)

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For untold ages before the birth of Zeus, Kronos, Lord of the Titans, ruled the world. A giant among giants, the most powerful and revered of all the gods, his unmatched strength and intelligence forged a Golden Age among the Immortals. But that was long ago. Brooding and increasingly unpredictable, he rules now through fear and unsurpassed cunning, his magnificent palace atop Mt. Olympos rife with whispers of madness and horror. Only Proteus, the shape changer, Proteus's precocious little sister Metis, and her "pet" humans can pierce Kronos's web of deadly intrigue and avert the disastrous war of the gods that is about to be unleashed across the earth. A vivid, mythologically authentic reconstruction of the lost Age of the Titans, Lord of the Crooked Paths and Master of the Fearful Depths form a single two-volume story–-a fast, gripping, and sometimes funny tale of adventure, love, and intrigue among the elder gods and goddesses of Greek mythology. "Intriguing . . . Adkins has done an excellent job of bringing together the names of legend and giving them character and motivation." --LOCUS "Patrick Adkins is a natural-born storyteller. . . . The man knows how to spin a tale of wonder." --Mike Resnick "A most entertaining fantasy story, with a great deal of originality." --Poul Anderson "Patrick Adkins has inherited the dawn-dipped, phoenix-feather quill of Thomas Burnett Swann." --Roger Zelazny

Is Lord of the Crooked Paths (including Master of the Fearful Depths) appropriate for my child?

Suitable for most readers 13 and up.

This mythological fantasy reimagines the Age of Titans with court intrigue, a tyrant descending into madness, and gods conspiring to prevent war. Expect moderate violence appropriate to Greek mythological themes and mild romantic elements.

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