Review: Odin's Child

Odin's Child by Siri Pettersen
My rating: 3 of 5 stars

I found the second book in this series available for only one dollar at the Friends of the Library room in one of the libraries in Vancouver, and as it happened, the same library had the first book in the series available to request. But only the first book. Oh well, it looked interesting and different, so I bought that second book and put it aside while waiting to pick up and read the first book. This one is set in a distant fantasy world heavily inspired by the Norse legends and lands of old - a grim, cold land with unrelenting chills natural and supernatural alike, and everybody loves to swear by blind bats and crones. It switches back and forth between a set of three distinct POV's, some heroic, some villainous - Urd, the primary villain, actually proves the most entertaining because of his love-to-hate factor. While this book is a real slog to get through at over 600 pages of constant darkness, it's the majorly surprising ending that really changes everything, and validates the (one) dollar I spent to purchase that second book for sure.

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