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Heir to Atlantis by Chris Fox | 286 pages This is an author I've known personally and followed for quite some time. When I was first researching the self-publishing space, his YouTube channel was full of advice videos and explainers about how to make a living with your writing, and for a time he was really well-known in the indie publishing space as someone who was regularly making six figures a year by publishing multiple titles a year. He kind of dropped off the grid after finishing publishing his opus (a seven-volume epic fantasy series), and this is the first book he's published in over a year. Which is quite surprising, given the fact that he was known for publishing four to seven books a year prior to this. The book ties into the theme of the month because a significant part of it takes place in and around the Mediterranean, as the protagonist searches for the lost city of Atlantis. Honestly, I don't think this one of Chris' stronger books. He relies pretty heavily on an informal storytelling style as if the character is speaking to a YouTube channel audience, but it's kind of inconsistently applied and seems to mostly be used for joke purposes. There are a lot of elements of the book that seem to be of limited utility and for a cheap joke payoff; the protagonist's name is "Mitch Dinkle" which is an objectively terrible character name and seems to have been selected solely for the jokes about it "rhyming with tinkle" and other silly ways of indicating he's not a serious archaeologist. Knowing a bit about the author's personal life from his real-life YouTube channel, the book also seems to be informed by his personal journey in recent years — which is totally fine — but it just came across as a little niche. Overall, like all of his books, this one was a quick, entertaining read. It's not for everyone, but if you're in the mood for a somewhat cheesy bit of archaeological fantasy fiction in the vein of a more juvenile Indiana Jones or Stargate, it's a quick read. |
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