The Fury of the Gods (Book 3 of the Bloodsworn Trilogy), by author John Gwynne. (Find book 1 here, and book 2 here). Every page of this exciting book will command your attention, ensuring you won’t be disappointed by this epic series.

You can find this book on Amazon at this link: eBook

Book Information

• Reviewed Status
  • Not reviewed
• Book Type
  • Novel
• Characters
  • Strong female main characters
• Genre
  • Fantasy, Norse Mythology
• Point of View
  • Third Person Omniscient
• Reader Age
  • Middle Grade, Adult
• Content Warnings
  • Animal Harm, Gore

Book Blurb

The final battle for the fate of Vigrid approaches…

Varg has overcome the trials of his past and become an accepted member of the Bloodsworn, but now he and his newfound comrades face their biggest challenge yet: slaying a dragon.  

Elvar is struggling to consolidate her power in Snakavik, where she faces threats from without and within. As she fights to assert her authority in readiness for the coming conflict, she faces a insurmountable task. Elvar must reigning in the ferocity of a wolf god. 

As Biorr and his warband make their way north, eager for blood, Gudvarr pursues a mission of his own, hoping to win Lik-Rifa’s favour and further his own ambitions.
  
All paths lead to Snakavik. The lines are being drawn for the final battle – a titanic clash that will shake the foundations of the world, and bear witness to the true fury of the gods.  

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The Hunger of the Gods (Book 2 of the Bloodsworn Trilogy), by author John Gwynne. (Find book 1 here). This is a masterfully crafted Norse epic.

You can find this book on Amazon at this link: eBook

Book Information

• Reviewed Status
  • Not reviewed
• Book Type
  • Novel
• Characters
  • Strong female main characters
• Genre
  • Fantasy, Norse Mythology
• Point of View
  • Third Person Omniscient
• Reader Age
  • Middle Grade, Adult
• Content Warnings
  • Animal Harm, Gore

Book Blurb

Lik-Rifa, the dragon god of legend, has been freed from her eternal prison. Now she plots a new age of blood and conquest.   
   
As 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.   
   
Elvar 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. Yet even the might of the Bloodsworn and Battle-Grim cannot stand alone against a dragon god.   
 
Their only hope lies within the mad writings of a chained god. A book of forbidden magic with the power to raise the wolf god Ulfrir from the dead…and bring about a battle that will shake the foundations of the earth.  

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The Shadow of the Gods (Book 1 of the Bloodsworn Trilogy), by author John Gwynne. (Find book 2 here) Set in a brand-new, Norse-inspired world, and packed with myth, magic, and vengeance, this book begins an epic new fantasy saga.

You can find this book on Amazon at this link: eBook

Book Information

• Reviewed Status
  • Not reviewed
• Book Type
  • Novel
• Characters
  • Strong female main characters, Strong male main characters
• Genre
  • Fantasy, Norse Mythology
• Point of View
  • Third Person Omniscient
• Reader Age
  • Young Adult, Adult
• Content Warnings
  • Animal Harm, Gore

Book Blurb

A century has passed since the gods fought and drove themselves to extinction. Now only their bones remain, promising great power to those brave enough to seek them out.

As whispers of war echo across the land of Vigrid, fate follows in the footsteps of three warriors: a huntress on a dangerous quest, a noblewoman pursuing battle fame, and a thrall seeking vengeance among the mercenaries known as the Bloodsworn.

All three will shape the fate of the world as it once more falls under the shadow of the gods.

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The Poetic Edda: Stories of the Norse Gods and Heroes, is an inspired compilation by author by Jackson Crawford. There are many translations of the Poetic Edda poems available to the average reader. Very few of these attempts manage to create an accessible, and readable English interpretation. You will enjoy the clear, elegant, and somewhat easy, writing. If you have any real interest in hearing, and feeling, the words of our Viking ancestors, this book is a must!

You can find this book on Amazon at this link: eBook

Book Information

• Reviewed Status
  • Not reviewed
• Book Type
  • Collection, Short Story
• Characters
  • Strong female main characters, Strong male main characters
• Genre
  • Fairy Tale, Norse Mythology
• Point of View
  • Third Person Omniscient
• Reader Age
  • Middle Grade, Young Adult, Adult
• Content Warnings
  • Animal Harm, Gore

Book Blurb

The poems of the Poetic Edda have waited a long time for a Modern English translation that would do them justice. Here it is (Odin be praised!) and it was well worth the wait. These amazing texts from a 13th-century Icelandic manuscript are of huge historical, mythological and literary importance. They contain the lion’s share of information about the gods and heroes of pre-Christian Scandinavians. Jackson Crawford’s modern versions of these poems are authoritative and fluent and often very gripping.  With individual head-notes and a thorough introduction, they supply readers with what they need to know in order to understand and appreciate the beliefs, motivations, and values of the Vikings.

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The Shepherd written by visionary author Matthew Owen Jones is an emotional, and action packed novella. It’s takes place in front of the backdrop of a small rural European town, and well worth the short amount of time it takes to read. Vivid landscapes abound in this well-crafted tale of close family bonds, painful grief, devastating loss, and dark family secrets. You won’t regret reading this book, so get your copy on Amazon at the following link: eBook

Book Information

• Reviewed Status
  • Reviewed
• Book Type
  • Novella
• Genre
  • Fantasy, Werewolf
• Point of View
  • Third Person Omniscient
• Reader Age
  • Young Adult, Adult
• Content Warnings
  • Animal Harm, Gore

Book Blurb

An old shepherd lives in isolation with his orphaned granddaughter in rural Europe.

A wolf plagues his life, one that years ago killed his daughter, disfigured his granddaughter, and continues to prey upon his flock, eluding all his efforts to find it. He resolves to take a stand against the beast, which took so much from him, and threatens all that he has left.

This is a tale of love and regret in a rough, unforgiving land. The tale continues in Blood in the Snow, included in this book.

”This big wolf somewhere out in the dark with him was a hunter. It was born to be a predator, at home in the darkness that would not hinder it. He was just an old man riddled with doubt.” – The Shepherd.

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The Wolfblight Saga, Book 1 is the first book in a three book series, written by author Simon Steele. It provides a well-crafted and unique take on werewolf lore. This beautifully written story may, or may not, resonate with avid fans of the genre. You can purchase this book from Amazon at this link: eBook

Book Information

• Reviewed Status
  • Not reviewed
• Genre
  • Horror, Werewolf
• Point of View
  • Third Person Omniscient
• Reader Age
  • Young Adult, Adult
• Content Warnings
  • Animal Harm, Gore

Book Blurb

A Tale of Love, Horror and Werewolves…

After suffering a terrible tragedy, John and Ulva Forrester settle into their new home in the village of Gormstad in ninth-century Norway, hoping to begin a new life of peace together. Their dream of tranquility is shattered when Ulva is bitten by a werewolf, afflicting her with wolfblight. Wolfblight transforms her into a vicious beast every night. If a cure isn’t procured soon, her affliction becomes permanent.

With friends and family at her side, it is a race against time. .Ulva sets off on a journey to reach the dark and mysterious forest known as Coldwood. There, an ancient artifact known as Fenrir’s Bane is her only hope.

But many horrors and nightmarish perils await Ulva and her companions, will they triumph and reach Coldwood in time, or will it be too late?

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The Book of Swedish Fairy Tales is a wonderful book with many short stories in a strong Norse folklore voice. Written by author Anon E. Mouse (that cannot be a real author name….) these retellings will entertain, and perhaps, teach you some things. You can find this book on Amazon at the following link: eBook

Book Information

• Reviewed Status
  • Reviewed
• Genre
  • Fantasy, Norse Mythology
• Point of View
  • Third Person Omniscient
• Reader Age
  • Middle Grade, Young Adult
• Content Warnings
  • Animal Harm, Gore, Suicide

Book Blurb

This volume of 28 Swedish fairy-tales represents a careful choice of the best examples of Swedish lore and tales. Every story, at its core, depicts Swedish culture, they are the most colorful and entertaining tales found, for the fairy-tales of Scandinavia, Sweden, Denmark and Norway, have a distinct local color of their own.

Herein you will find 28 children’s stories like the delightful “Lasse, My Thrall”, and “The Princess and the Glass Mountain.” Of course there are stories of princesses rescued from ogres and giants like in the story of “Silverwhite And Lillwacker.” There are also stories of the low-born lad who makes good and becomes a king, like that of “The Mount Of The Golden Queen.” But you can’t have a book of tales from the far Northern realms without a story about a “giant, troll and werewolf”, for this is also the land of Beowulf the Vikings.

We could carry on waxing lyrical for a lot longer but will leave the discovery of these wonderfully, magical tales to you and your kin.

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Windborn is a dark, character-driven Norse fantasy packed with emotion, deadly foes, and vicious battles written by author Alex S. Bradshaw. You can find this book on Amazon at the following link: eBook

Book Information

• Reviewed Status
  • Reviewed
• Book Type
  • Novel
• Characters
  • Strong female main characters
• Genre
  • Fantasy, Norse Mythology
• Point of View
  • First Person
• Reader Age
  • Young Adult, Adult
• Content Warnings
  • Animal Harm, Gore, Language

Book Blurb

Drowning is only the beginning…

Edda Gretasdottir is a raider, a fell-handed shield-maiden, feared along every coast. Hers is a life woven in battle scars.
But she never wanted to walk the warrior’s path. All she wanted was freedom, to earn enough gold to buy her family their own remote farm, and to escape their oppressive chieftain. Now, she has enough plunder so that she can finally hang up her shield and live in peace.

That peace is stolen from Edda, however, when raiders burn her home, destroy all that she loves, and toss her, wounded and bleeding, into the ravenous ocean. But the fates are cruel and this is not the end for Edda: she rises from the bloody surf as a Windborn, a cursed warrior whose supernatural gifts are a poor exchange for everything she has lost.
Fueled by rage and armed with strange new powers Edda will hunt for whoever sent the raiders, for whoever is responsible for taking everything from her. She will show them the sharp edge of her ax… or die trying.

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Ascension, The Ymir Trinity is a Military Science Fiction Fantasy book set in the very near future, written by new-on-the-scene author, A. M. Leishman. You can find this book on Amazon at this link. It contains many elements of Norse Mythology with tons of subtle and not-so-subtle subtext (some of it may be offensive). This book assumes a universe were the amazing works of Snorri Sturluson’s Prose Edda never existed. It portrays Christianity and Norse Paganism as mutually beneficial belief systems while showing the United States military in a positive light.

Book Information

• Reviewed Status
  • Reviewed
• Book Type
  • Novel
• Characters
  • Strong female main characters, Strong male main characters
• Genre
  • Fantasy, Military, Norse Mythology, Science Fiction
• Point of View
  • Third Person Omniscient
• Reader Age
  • Young Adult, Adult
• Content Warnings
  • Animal Harm, Gore, Gun Violence, Suicide, Torture

Book Blurb

Ascension, The Ymir Trinity: A clandestine American military team, created to stop the emergence of another hostile demigod, betrayed the world they swore to protect. Led by an Air Force General with his own secrets, they did the unthinkable. They negotiated a partnership with the most powerful being in the known universe, an unassuming demigoddess from Iceland named Alma.

Alma and her young, eugenics obsessed, American companion, Dawn, unwittingly plunged humanity into war after brutal war. With each hard-fought battle, human military and technological progress took a quantum leap forward.

Will humankind’s violence-accelerated evolution raise them to the level of the gods? Was this Ymir’s plan from the beginning?

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