REVIEW: Survival and Other Scars by TJ Nichols (Mytho Collapse #3)

- October 29, 2025

SURVIVAL AND OTHER SCARS

Mytho Collapse - Book Three

by TJ Nichols

Release Date: October 28, 2025

Review

A continuation of a kind of post-apocalyptic fantasy story. Two worlds collided, and now they are navigating a new world with so many unknowns and destruction.

Tensions are high as everyone tries to figure out how to rebuild, fix food supplies and learn to live human and mythical together.

Pan and Noah and trying their best to help fix what they can and lead where they can, but it’s an uphill battle.

It’s a fascinating world, and the notion of a magicless god and young man discovering he might have some, surrounded by vampires, dragons and drak.

I’m not gonna lie, this book felt a little more bleak than the first two, but maybe it’s because it reflected a little too accurately the division the world is experiencing at the moment, but I’m definitely looking forward to how this will sort itself out, and what things for Pan and Noah will look like along the way.

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Synopsis

Pan and Noah's story continues...

For every problem Pan solves, he makes three more, but accidentally turning Noah–his only connection to magic and the man who has been helping him–into a selkie might be the worst. Now he needs to earn Noah’s trust, and Pan has no idea where to start. He’s a god; people are supposed to beg him for forgiveness and aid.

Then a group of drak start following him around, thinking that he’ll be able to help them recover their ability to breathe fire. The last thing anyone needs is shapeshifting fire-breathing cats. But when they offer their prayers, Pan can’t refuse.

Noah should have realized he couldn’t trust a word that fell off Pan’s tongue before kissing him. Now, he kind of needs him because there are no other living selkies, and he doesn’t know what to do. Not that he even wants to be a selkie, but the coat is now his, and only his. As much as he wants to run away from all of this, the mythos aren’t going anywhere, and helping Pan gives him something to do.

The trouble is, the more he is around the powerless god, the easier it becomes to forgive him because he really is trying to help his people, even if it is only so they will worship him again. At least this time, Noah understands Pan only cares about himself.

Or at least he thought he understood…

MM urban fantasy romance between a god without magic and a human discovering his own after the mythological world collapses into ours.

About TJ Nichols

Urban Fantasy where the hero always gets his man.

TJ Nichols is the author of the Studies in Demonology, Familiar Mates, and Mytho Investigations MM romance series. They love writing about fated mates, enemies to lovers, found family, shifters, demons and other monsters. After traveling all over the world, TJ now lives in Perth, Western Australia. You can find more at my website tjnichols-author

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