Confused. ALmost sort of works, but there's a lot of rushing around of the central characters (too many) and hence very little idea what's actually going on. The basic premise seems to be interesting though and a development from DNA and pTerry's ideas (without the humour) of what happens if old gods remain active in the world around us.

In this instacne it seems that most of the old golds have beenkilled and only a handul remain - Loki being the chief protagonist. Although Lillith has been elevated to godhood. This is confusing as there are also a bunch of active vampires split into at least two sects, with Kaine somewhere in the background. And werewolves although they seem to be the weakest race with no god level patron. Some other races are mentioned as being still existent, but either hiding or fled. God as usually known doesn't feature but there are real angels. Although no devils.

We follow a bunch of these characters around, jumping rapidly from one to another for short action scenes. Apparently there's some form of prophecy regarding a werewolf and a vampire that could effect the future of many of the remaining immortals and they are all trying to ensure that they survive. And some of the vampires are just out to kill all the others, and then there are Grey Ones (unspecified) about somewhere too. Lots more running about with the various teams not really making any progress as we jump through time to the present day (why? what's special about this decade rather than any other), eventually leads to a couple of big fights, and then it's all left for the sequels with no-one (including the reader) any the wiser as to what was going on.

From the 'forthcoming books' at the back it looks like this is the cornerstone of at least three intersects series' following some of the characters' futures. But I CBA to read them unless the writing and the plotting get a lot better. ( )