Vulture (Best of the Year) on The Shadow of the GodsĪ masterfully crafted, brutally compelling Norse-inspired epic. As tension mounts with each passing page, Gwynne delivers exhilarating fights and gruesome battles with such vivid prose the choreography jumps off the page. There is not a dull chapter in this fantasy epic. It’s everything I’ve come to expect from a John Gwynne book. The well-realized characters move against a backdrop of a world stunning in its immensity. A great companion to Neil Gaiman’s Norse Mythology.īooklist (starred review) on The Shadow of the GodsĪ satisfying and riveting read. The world is wonderfully rendered with attention paid to what makes the Norse sagas entertaining….The many layers provide a lavish feast for any reader. epic, gritty fantasy with an uncompromising amount of heart." -FanFiAddict "A masterfully crafted, brutally compelling Norse-inspired epic." -Anthony Ryan It’s everything I’ve come to expect from a John Gwynne book." -Robin Hobb
“There is not a dull chapter in this fantasy epic.” -Vulture (Best of the Year) and bring about a battle that will shake the foundations of the earth. A book of forbidden magic with the power to raise the wolf god Ulfrir from the dead. Their hope lies within the mad writings of a chained god. Yet even the might of the Bloodsworn and Battle-Grim cannot stand alone against a dragon god. Now she plots a new age of blood and conquest.Īs Orka continues the hunt for her missing son, the Bloodsworn sweep south in a desperate race to save one of their own – and Varg takes the first steps on the path of vengeance.Įlvar has sworn to fulfil her blood oath and rescue a prisoner from the clutches of Lik-Rifa and her dragonborn followers, but first she must persuade the Battle-Grim to follow her. Lik-Rifa, the dragon god of legend, has been freed from her eternal prison. Set in a Norse-inspired world and packed with myth, magic, and vengeance, this second book in John Gwynne’s Bloodsworn trilogy is the next chapter an epic saga that follows a band of warriors as they face the wrath of ancient gods and change the shape of the world.
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