Boring. Inaccurate. Voice actor exhausting.

Many of the stories either only involved the gods as a reference or included them far too much. But none of them had a Lovecraftian feel to it – making it hard to enter the mindset to enjoy this book.

I’ve read a lot of Lovecraft. So much of his works and his contemporary’s works. But the gods as portrayed here feel wrong. They tried too hard to define them that they tore away at the mystique. Knowing a god’s character is not the same as delineating their appearance, powers, thoughts, and weaknesses. That they tried applying such definite structure to them defeats the purpose of the gods.

The voice actor was exhausting. He was monotone and I could rarely sense his emotional shifts. He didn’t seem to bother to voice different characters differently. Even if I loved a book, I do not think I’ll ever purchase an audiobook voiced by the guy that did this one.