Kato by D.B. Reynolds

My rating: 4 of 5 stars

It was a time when gods walked the earth, when armies fought not for bits of land, but for the very existence of humanity. On such a battlefield, five formidable warriors stood against an evil greater than any the earth had ever seen. But evil is not an honorable foe. Betrayed by someone they trusted, the warriors were cursed, one by one, tossed into the maelstrom of time, imprisoned in stone, their freedom resting on nearly impossible conditions. Until . . .

Kato Amadi . . . born of darkest sorcery, unstoppable on the battlefield, his magic is as deadly as his blade. But not even magic could save him from vicious betrayal. Trapped for millennia in darkness and silence, he is freed at last, only to find himself in the middle of a battle against the very beasts of hell he was created to destroy.

Grace Van Allen is a scholar of ancient languages who toils in the dim recesses of a museum basement with only a beautiful stone warrior to keep her company. But when Grace calls upon her silent warrior to help her translate an obscure new language, she breaks the ancient curse holding him prisoner . . . and frees three deadly demons to rampage through her city.

Tracking demons is what Kato was born to do, but he’ll need Grace’s help. And when they discover that Kato’s enemy is still alive and still plotting against him, their hunt takes a dangerous turn, one that might just prove fatal for both of them . . .

Kato

Demon hunting!

The following ratings are out of 5:
Romance: ❤️💙💜💚
Steam: 🔥🔥🔥
Story/Plot: 📕📗📘📔
World building: 🌏🌍🌏🌎
Character development: 😠☺️😋😍
Narration: 🎙🎙🎙🎙🎙
Narration Type: Solo Narration

The heroine: Grace – she works in a museum studying antiquities. She is a linguistic scholar who knows many ancient languages. Her current project was to decipher ancient scrolls and when she copies the text onto paper, a man breaks out of a stone statue and a demon is summoned from the scroll she was looking at.

The Hero: Kato – son of the dark witch who had his own magic. Though he was cursed and turned to stone ages ago. Though he was still awake inside the stone. For the last years his statue was inside a museum basement where Grace Van Allen worked and talked to his statue on occasion.

The Story: Kato is able to kill the demon that was after Grace and is determined to deal with the other two scrolls which he know are each spells to conjure demons. When they find that another demon was unleashed at Grace’s apartment, they go searching for it. Kato also wants to find his three brothers in arms who were also cursed, Sotiris the sorcerer who cursed them and his leader Nicodemas who was left alive and searching for them when the four were cursed, turned to stone and scattered around the world.

This series is quite different than any I had read before. The four warriors were not gargoyles, but were cursed in stone until they are each freed by a different woman. The story in this one was good, there was a lot of adventure as Kato and Grace went demon hunting. There were some steamy scenes and a good backstory for Kato.

This book is told in multiple points of view via solo narration and was narrated by Tor Thom. He is one of my favorite male narrators and has a deep voice that I really enjoy. He did a great job on this book which was original and exciting.

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