In the Company of Ogres

A. Lee Martinez again surprised me with a novel. They're all funny, easy reads - but setting & story-line are totally different each time.

In the Company of Ogres takes some strange twists and turns. Every time I thought I knew which kind of story this is it took a twist and turned into something else.

We start with Demonic Accountants running the place, continue with a black sheep last chance Cinderella story move to a bit too much teenage love triangle and end up with cosmic forces at work.

But the best thing about Martinez is that he is funny, and Ogres is first and foremost a satire of fantasy tropes. My favorite moment was a game of Real D&D played by Ogres, goblins, orcs, and so on... playing as other D&D character types.

And how can you not love a story about a character called: Never Dead Ned.

Sadly fore some reason this is the only A. Lee Martinez novel not available as an audobook.