Haha, I am TOTALLY shocked that you liked the first one better. *laughing* I think the difference between these two books may be the textbook definition between your type of preferred book and mine!

I was actually okay with as much Itempas stuff as we got; I find the humans generally more interesting than the gods (although, Lil! And whatever-his-name-was, the god of discards, whose fate I was very sad about since I kind of loved him for his two pages of screentime.) The last book had too much Nahadoth for me; this had approximately the right amount of Itempas.