The Testament of Loki
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Asgard fell, centuries ago, and the old gods have been defeated. Some are dead, while others have been consigned to eternal torment in the netherworld - among them, the legendary trickster, Loki. A god who betrayed every side and still lost everything, who has lain forgotten as time passed and the world of humans moved on to new beliefs, new idol and new deities . . .
But now mankind dreams of the Norse Gods once again, the river Dream is but a stone's throw from their dark prison, and Loki is the first to escape into a new reality.
The first, but not the only one to. Other, darker, things have escaped with him, who seek to destroy everything that he covets. If he is to reclaim what has been lost, Loki will need allies, a plan, and plenty of tricks . . .
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My favorite trickster is back and hasn’t lost his charm at all. Instead of retelling Norse mythology, Harris chose to tell Loki’s escape from Netherworld in a modern setting. A fabulous idea, I might add, since the old gods don’t know much about this new world and have to learn how to adapt. This book was full of humor and deceit (within deceit within deceit and so on, which sometimes got quite confusing) and I had a great time with it. Only two things bugged me: 1. I wish Loki stayed truer to himself and got less effected by human emotion. Yes, that would make him a pretty bad person, but he is a god and the world’s biggest trickster at that, so that’s to be expected. 2. While I really appreciate that humans with bodily defects (don’t know if I used the right word here) and disorders played a huge part in this book, overcoming an eating disorder was overly simplified. If it really was that easy to “heal” an eating disorder, people wouldn’t have to die of it. It’s a rocky and exhausting path and the book didn’t do this circumstance justice.
Description
Asgard fell, centuries ago, and the old gods have been defeated. Some are dead, while others have been consigned to eternal torment in the netherworld - among them, the legendary trickster, Loki. A god who betrayed every side and still lost everything, who has lain forgotten as time passed and the world of humans moved on to new beliefs, new idol and new deities . . .
But now mankind dreams of the Norse Gods once again, the river Dream is but a stone's throw from their dark prison, and Loki is the first to escape into a new reality.
The first, but not the only one to. Other, darker, things have escaped with him, who seek to destroy everything that he covets. If he is to reclaim what has been lost, Loki will need allies, a plan, and plenty of tricks . . .
Book Information
Posts
My favorite trickster is back and hasn’t lost his charm at all. Instead of retelling Norse mythology, Harris chose to tell Loki’s escape from Netherworld in a modern setting. A fabulous idea, I might add, since the old gods don’t know much about this new world and have to learn how to adapt. This book was full of humor and deceit (within deceit within deceit and so on, which sometimes got quite confusing) and I had a great time with it. Only two things bugged me: 1. I wish Loki stayed truer to himself and got less effected by human emotion. Yes, that would make him a pretty bad person, but he is a god and the world’s biggest trickster at that, so that’s to be expected. 2. While I really appreciate that humans with bodily defects (don’t know if I used the right word here) and disorders played a huge part in this book, overcoming an eating disorder was overly simplified. If it really was that easy to “heal” an eating disorder, people wouldn’t have to die of it. It’s a rocky and exhausting path and the book didn’t do this circumstance justice.