THE NO. 1 SUNDAY TIMES AND NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER FROM THE AUTHOR OF NETFLIX HIT THE SANDMAN
‘With the deftest of touches, the characters are once again brought to life’ JOANNE HARRIS ‘The halls of Valhalla have been crying out for Gaiman to tell their stories’ OBSERVER
The great Norse myths, which have inspired so much of modern fiction, are dazzlingly retold by Neil Gaiman. Tales of dwarfs and frost giants, of treasure and magic, and of Asgard, home to the gods: Odin the all-father, highest and oldest of the Aesir; his mighty son Thor, whose hammer Mjollnir makes the mountain giants tremble; Loki, wily and handsome, reliably unreliable in his lusts; and Freya, more beautiful than the sun or the moon, who spurns those who seek to control her.
From the dawn of the world to the twilight of the gods, this is a thrilling, vivid retelling of the Norse myths from the award-winning, bestselling Neil Gaiman.
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This book is a great retelling of a number of Norse myths. Gaiman has taken some of the source material and rewritten it in a way that makes it very accessible and enjoyable to read. He doesn't stray too far from the original tales, but adds his own style to them, sometimes with a dash of humour as well.
As I read I couldn't stop myself from seeing the major characters as the actors who portray them in the Marvel movies. This was not necessarily a bad thing, but it might have helped me as I read the book through and took note of the similarities and differences between these myths and the movies. I enjoyed these stories so much that I bought a copy of The Prose Edda so that I could read one of the original sources from which Gaiman drew his inspiration.
This book is not a difficult read and could almost be seen as an introduction to Norse mythology for anyone with an interest in this.
