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There is sort of a de Lint air about some of it, though I wouldn't say there are direct similarities.
I wrote to the author and he said that he is deliberately including gods from multiple pantheons because he's always been "bugged" as an urban fantasy reader that writers tend to limit themselves to a certain few. He said that in the next books there will be gods from the Russian, Finnish, Native American and Chinese pantheons, among the more familiar ones (I suppose given the fact that the main character is a Druid there's no avoiding the Celtic crowd - lol).
@ LCF: I never read that one, so I looked it up. Oberon isn't a familiar like Snuff seems to be - he's an actual dog who is Atticus' pet. Because Atticus is able to communicate with him mentally, they have become friends. His understanding and behavior is more in keeping with that of an intelligent dog than a familiar. He came from a rescue ranch in Massachusetts.
<I thought you said never to attack humans.>
She hasn't been human for a very long time.
<All right. I do not think she will attack. She is a very nice inhuman.>
You mean nonhuman. Inhuman is an adjective, I said as I rose from the lawn and padded softly around the left side of the house to the backyard.
<Hey, I'm not a native speaker. Give me a break.>
and:
<You think she's going to try something? Should I move behind her?>
No, she knows you're there. She can see through the camouflage. But I think she's hiding something from me, and I'm waiting for the other shoe to drop.
<When did she drop the first shoe? I missed it.>
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