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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Full review on my blog!
I'll keep this one really short.
Neil Gaiman is trying hard to make the best of what those Norse Myths have to offer.
Some of the stories are entertaining but - and that's not Gaiman's fault - there isn't much depth. You might learn a little more about some of the Gods but the bottom line is: if shit went down it was definitely Loki's fault.
I might be a little spoiled because all the other retellings I recently went through were Rick Riordan books. Of course, those are not merely retellings as Gaiman's collection of stories is. Riordan imbues those myths with new life, adapts and changes them. Thus, the Gods get more depth, the stories are more intricate.
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