God of Clocks by Alan Campbell

In the mystical, ancient city of Deepgate, deities and iron angels battle, while an opened portal to hell lets loose creatures that further destroy the land and its inhabitants. Sounds like the end...at least until Rachel Hael, Mina Greene, and Greene's dog, Basilis, set out to make sure Deepgate ends on a better note.

God of Clocks, the third installment in the Deepgate Codex series, starts with a gruesome glimpse into the boiling and draining of a demigod who refuses to die. While readers dwell on that, the cast of protagonists are introduced together before they seperate into two intermingling adventures. John Archer leads his group through hell. Simultaneously, in the hopes that his assistance will rid their world of the devious King Menoa, Rachel and Mina combine their assets to lead their group to the God of Clocks's castle.

Get ready for an adventure that combines realistic characters with inhuman creatures and comedy with serious situations, an adventure with paradoxes, angels, gods, and demons beautifully interwoven in a world like and unlike our own. When readers start to believe that everything will go right, that all the characters will participate, Alan Campbell proves them wrong.

I opened this book with the idea that I'd be reading a dark urban fantasy. The words hell, legions, creatures, and angels certainly calls for such an assumption. What with all the intricate worldbuilding and otherworld terminology, I learned the story was more fantasy than dark urban. That doesn't mean Alan fails to deliever, though!


Can you keep up with the God of Clocks? I hope so, because you'll regret it if you can't.


Reviewed for Suspense Magazine by Tiffany T. Cole.