Review: Street of Lost Gods

Title: Street of Lost Gods
Author: Gareth Lewis
Publisher: Smashwords
ISBN: N/A     

Rax Darkthorn is a knowhound - a detective – brought by the death of a friend to the Thief City, Nexi. Nexi sits between dimensions, siphoning off people, gods, and buildings for a purpose only the city knows. Those who are so trapped never escape, and visitors are few. Rax, however, escaped and returned upon learning of his friend’s death. He quickly sets about investigating and soon realizes that the Thief City is too full of mysteries to resist.

The story is a fast paced short story with a world that is entrancing and fascinating. The writing was such that I quickly forgave and overlooked the few typos my ebook edition had (but typos are a common problem with Smashword, the nature of the beast). As captivated as I was by the world and story, I couldn’t help but feel the story would have greatly benefited from one more edit: not for typos, but cohesion. Namely, the narrator starts out by saying there are two ways into Nexi (willingly and unwillingly), then a few pages later he names two more (a way specific to angels and gods, and with a pass), one the narrator doesn’t like and the other simply overlooked or considered to be part of the first. 

In the end, I considered the story too short, as I would have liked to extend my stay in Nexi.