This was exactly what the description of it promised : a God punk urban fantasy.

Set in Lagos, Nigeria, after “The Falling”, an event that saw the gods fall on earth and more specifically in Lagos, trying to make it their new home, causing humans to fleed Lagos Island and live in constant fear of them.

In this god-infested city, David Mogo is a godhunter, half human and half god himself, he makes a living by capturating godlings for humans who want to get rid of them. However, he will find himself fighting against higher gods, those gods who want to rule the city, and to do so he will have to accept and embrace his own god essence.

This novel is everything I was expecting it to be, and it was so refreshing reading a fantasy novel by a BIPOC and African author, it obviously gives the fantasy genre a very different turn from what we are mostly used to: magic is not old men with white beards, monsters are not ogres neither dragons. Also big point in favour of the novel: the women are proactive, they exist and act with or without the male protagonist (saving his ass numerous times by the way!)

I would highly suggest it to those of you who like fantasy novels, it will bring you in a completely unique fantasy world 🌍