Book #156 of 2017: Runemarks by Joanne M. Harris (Loki #3) This is a fun fantasy adventure story, drawing on Norse mythology but set several centuries after Ragnarok when the gods have largely passed into legend. Still, young Maddy Smith dreams of them, and she seems to have inherited some measure of their magic. Of …
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Book #78 of 2017: The Gospel of Loki by Joanne M. Harris (Loki #1) A great rendition of Norse mythology from the perspective of its trickster god Loki. Sometimes these tales are in line with their traditional versions and just punctuated by Loki’s droll observations, and sometimes the trickster asserts an entirely alternate course of …
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