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Goodreads Review
Feb. 15th, 2019 10:02 amLoki--Mike Vasich
I saw this title and thought it would be a look at Norse mythology from the Bad Guy perspective, like Grendel or Wicked. It was not. Which was disappointing, because different perspectives is kind of my jam. What it was, was a retelling of the Ragnarok myth with a more modern vernacular and a more fleshed out storyline. Which is not a bad thing in and of itself, and I enjoyed the read.
However.
The book could use a copyeditor.
Perspective/Point of View shifts around rapidly, once within the same paragraph, and without warning. You eventually figure out what's going on, but it throws you out of the story and makes you cranky.
The practice of spending a chapter to give you the condensed story of part of the myth followed by three chapters of the more modern telling of what you just read means I spend three chapters vaguely bored. What's worse is that sometimes the condensed story is directly contradicted by events in the following chapters which means I spend three chapters vaguely confused.
I saw this title and thought it would be a look at Norse mythology from the Bad Guy perspective, like Grendel or Wicked. It was not. Which was disappointing, because different perspectives is kind of my jam. What it was, was a retelling of the Ragnarok myth with a more modern vernacular and a more fleshed out storyline. Which is not a bad thing in and of itself, and I enjoyed the read.
However.
The book could use a copyeditor.
Perspective/Point of View shifts around rapidly, once within the same paragraph, and without warning. You eventually figure out what's going on, but it throws you out of the story and makes you cranky.
The practice of spending a chapter to give you the condensed story of part of the myth followed by three chapters of the more modern telling of what you just read means I spend three chapters vaguely bored. What's worse is that sometimes the condensed story is directly contradicted by events in the following chapters which means I spend three chapters vaguely confused.