The Lore of Prometheus is a solid effort and fun read, but isn't without its problems. It starts off as a pretty run of the mill story: an ex-special forces soldier takes on a mercenary contract to help cover his debts after leaving the force. Our protagonist Carver has had a rough time, and his PTSD has made life hell for him. We get bits and pieces of this in the first bits of the book as Carver talks to his old squadmates who were murdered in front of him.

I was a little confused through the first quarter of this book, because it's categorized as fantasy and the first chunk has no fantastical element at all. This isn't a problem for me - in fact these days I prefer low fantasy - but I was confused. Then the real plot starts and we shift away from Carver for a bit to our second main character, Mackenzie.

Mackenzie's been kidnapped by a group of people working to extract magical powers from people. In Mackenzie's case, this means controlling fire. Her family burned to death when she was a child, but the fire didn't touch her. 

The middle section of the story really dragged for me. It's important for the character arc of Mackenzie, and John who also gets kidnapped - we learn his power in this section too- but it just goes on too long. It's a long, drawn-out section where nothing really happens. This book was independently published, and I think could've used another pass by an editor to tighten up these middle chapters.

Likewise, the ending is a bit rushed. We jump from climax to epilogue and everything resolves in just a few pages. I think some more time should've been spent wrapping up the story. 

I enjoyed this book, and it was a quick read. Definitely not my favorite read of the year, but there's an interesting concept here and I would read other stories set in the same universe.