My rating: 4 out of 5 stars
A retelling of a Mesopotamian myth, the story begins with chief god Enlil standing upon his mountain watching has his children returning home with some strange beast (the description make it out to be a griffin). The beast represents itself to Enlil, calling itself Anzu and asking to serve Enlil. After consulting Tablets of Destiny and not seeing Anzu within them, Enlil asks Anzu to guard the room the Tablets are housed in. Anzu accepts but as the point-of-view switches, we learn that Anzu believes Enlil is a condescending jerk and when he goes to take a bath Anzu steals the Tablets. We switch to the POV of Ninurta who snuck into the council of the gods who are debating what to do then many counsel patience, he decides in his young cocky godhood to do something since the adults won’t. Taking his bow and quiver of arrows, he attempts to sneak up on Anzu but the beast wasn’t fooled. Anzu blocks Ninurta’s arrows and mocks him as he hides to revise his strategy which is to take the older god’s advice, patience, as he realizes that Anzu is mad. Ninurta then forces Anzu to keep on using the Tablets’ power before exhausting himself enough that he is too slow for Ninurta’s last arrow.
Though a short 8 pages, a lot is packed into the story but the quality of writing just keeps the momentum going until you’re stocked that the story is over.
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