Age of Heroes

The Pantheon Saga, Book 1

By: C.C. Ekeke

Narrated by: Roger Wayne, Adenrele Ojo, Kaleo Griffith

Every hero has a beginning. So does every villain.

Titan, the world’s greatest superhero, has been murdered by his longtime archenemy Lord Borealis. And from the ashes rises a new generation.

Gifted with powers on the night of Titan’s death, 15-year-old Hugo awakes to the strange world of superheroes. A world he isn’t prepared for.

But with godlike powers and a history of tragedy, will Hugo become a guardian of justice...or agent of chaos?

Warning: Contains moderate swearing and big damn superhero action. If you’re not a fan of moderate swearing or big damn superhero action, this book might not be for you.

©2019 C.C. Ekeke (P)2019 Podium Publishing

three storys one book but why together

so i liked the book but i have some issues. i uderstand that the storys are trying to show difrent view ponts in the world. but stoys are onley conected by the fact that thay are in the same world. as the three storys fallow difrent people and have no real interactions between them it is hard swaping back and foreth between main characters almost every chapter. it also chooses to do it at very poor times. driving me at some points the skip ahead chapters and then go back see what happened with other character. for example there are a couple times when you are in the middle of a fight and decides to go on two different main character. before it finally gets back to the character that's in a fight. I can't understand that in this scenario where are the other characters might have some effect on the outcome of the fighting or being involved in some way but it's just a completely different thing that they're doing that could take place before or after a daring and there's nothing that really tells you that it is happening at the same time. they also have three very different stories that would each be good on their own but do not complement each other in any way. and almost felt like reading three different books at the same time. as you can freely switch between the characters storylines without learning anything really would affect others. I'll give the Nextbook a shot but if it doesn't get better I probably will not continue book series.

mostly excellent

only complaint is the reporter arch. that story aspect was too much imo. I'm not as interested in office politics as a super hero story. it kind of dragged on too much.

Good idea, less than stellar execution

The story and world that this book illustrates is interesting and engaging, after a somewhat slow beginning. However there are a few issues. The author has a tendency to over-describe everything, and not always well. Some characters are described every time they are shown, and it is not always consistent each time they are described. The most egregious one of these is in the beginning when Hugo is described as "A skinny overweight boy". What does my mental eye even do with that? The author also describes things strangely with odd comparisons and references. And if the female pov describes her hair as "kinky" one more time I'll find a way to enter this world to shave it all off. Speaking of which, the female POV is just a bad story. I get that it is supposed to give us background knowledge, but her storyline is bland and her character is unlikable. A reporter that gets that worked up at the very beginning of an interview so often is useless as a POV. It almost seems like this storyline was written by a different person, as while all the characters have some over the top corny lines and horrendously lame jokes, this character seems to dial it up to 13 for some reason. Lastly, the female narrators performance is noticeably worse than the other two narrators. Her voice is stilted and robotic, with odd inflection on common words and strange pauses in the middle of sentences. Her microphone also seems much tinnier than the others, which is painful when using headphones.

Last criticism, I wish authors with multiple POVs would realize they are not REQUIRED to switch between the characters in order between chapters. This is especially jarring since there is zero connection between the storylines. I'm sure they will connect later, but in the meantime there is less than zero reason to take us out of the middle of a big fight to have us watch the reporter across the country in a bar for half an hour. Don't cut away from the action to something else unless there's a good reason, that's just lazy writing. This isn't a TV show where the producers are waiting for the source material to catch up, finish the scene before switching characters!

Overall the story is interesting and I plan to continue, but I genuinely hope the author improves their writing skills over the course of the series or I may have trouble getting all the way through.

This world feels ALL TOO REAL....

It's a perfect balance of everything we love about MCU and the Boys without going overboard. I found the multiple perspectives and Character growth arcs a fantastic burn without being too slow and also not too fast...
This was my 1st time listening to this author and narrators and I thoroughly enjoyed them... 😊 That was smart to make the 1st book a free listen...
great job throughout and I'm looking forward to the rest of the series... I'll be spending my credits on these books...

Story decent. Narration disappointing.

Female narrator seriously reduced any enjoyment of the book. Even trying to get past her poor narration, it was hard to focus on the story without being distracted. If I decide to check out the next book in the series, I will be reading it, not listening to it.