Tome Thursday: The Land the Gods Forgot

 

Hello everyone!

 

And welcome back to another book review.

 

Tonight's choice makes a whole lot of sense if you remember that I'm a big fan of Outlander and Vikings, which is basically what this is a mash-up of.

 

The fact remains that there's been a BIG resurgence of time travel books and books that feature characters just randomly popping through time since Diana Gabaldon's works have been adapted by Starz (and this is ending with the eighth season, so, SOBS GALORE).

 

Which isn't a bad thing, honestly, because there's sooo many places you could time travel to!

 

Now, if only we could find authors that wrote about someone dropping into Ancient Greece or the like.

 

Anyway, without further ado, let's get right into Sarah Beth's book, alright?

 

The ravens are gathering and the battle draws near in The Land the Gods Forgot.

 

Talkie Tuesday: GOWR Valhalla

 

"You have always been more than what others saw."

 

Hello everyone!

 

And Happy New Year!

 

I hope that you had a wonderful celebration with friends, family, or others who bring you as much joy as they possibly can, and that you ended 2023 on a good bang. 

 

Also, that 2024 will bring you everything you may want or need, even if you yourself don't think you do. Because sometimes, getting the unexpected and realizing that it's exactly what we would have asked for if we'd known to ask, is probably the best solution.

 

As far as this blog goes, well, we're back on the regular grind now!

 

And boy, do I have a banger for you tonight.

 

Released at the start of December, completely free of charge and made specifically for the fans, this particular subject has probably garnered plenty of praise purely based on that alone.

 

Then you figure out the what, who and why, and it gets even better. Because it's God of War, Ragnarok, to be precise, and its DLC: Valhalla.

 

Tome Thursday: The Silent Son

 

Hello everyone!

 

Time to dive into Norse lore again tonight.

 

It feels like I've planned this, reading so many books lately that take inspiration or are directly linked to our northern neighbours somehow, but I promise that's not the case.

 

I actually didn't even figure it out until I already had the books and was reading through them.

 

But it's definitely obvious I have a bit of a type, right?

 

All these books happen to be retellings, and this one tonight is no different either.

 

Remember that bit about the world ending, and each religion in the world having its own version?

 

Well, the Norse have one, too.

 

And Alexis L. Menard chose to interpret it her own way in her duology of books under the title The Last Daughter.

 

So come with us while we try to fight it off, in The Silent Son.

 

Talkie Tuesday: God of War Ragnarök

 

"Fate only binds you if you let it. Do what is necessary; not because it is written."

 

Hello everyone!

 

And welcome once again to another video game summary.

 

You may remember that I love to do this every once in a while, if I find a game that I truly like and fall in love with.

 

And HOO boy!

 

I fell in love with this one.

 

So much so that I'm watching the gameplay on Youtube for the third or fourth time in a row right now.

 

Yeah, I know. It's an obsession at this point, but it's a good kind of obsession and you can't tell me you wouldn't be feeling the same way, or that you aren't.

 

This game maybe didn't win Game of the Year, but it won the highest number of awards anyway, and between the story, the score, the vocal performances, and general roundup, I'm reasonably sure that it's a fitting ending to the Norse Saga.

 

What am I talking about, you ask? Why, God of War Ragnarök, of course!

 

Tome Thursday: The Last Daughter

 

Hello everyone!

 

Back at it again with some more BookSirens ARC suggestions, because why wouldn't I be?

 

I think the site is one of the best sites out there for people to be able to read books prior to release or even after release without needing to spend so much money on an actual edition right off the bat, what if you don't like it?

 

This way, if you love the ARCs you're reading, you'll probably buy the book anyway and support the author like that!

 

Plus I mean ... Norse mythology.

 

Come ON we all love the Norse sagas, and with Santa Monica's God of War Ragnarok release almost right around the corner, this is getting a bit of an added boost if you ask me.

 

It's a great time to do anything Norse mythos related! 

So make sure to bring warm clothes, because it's going to get cold before it gets hot.

The Last Daughter by Alexis L. Menard is up.

Saturday Snippet: RAGNAROK Theories

 

xx

*video not mine

Tome Thursday: God of War (2018)

 

Hello everyone!

 

So I know I said I wouldn't do this anymore, but ... yeah, I'm doing it.

 

One last time.

 

If this were a different blog post I'd insert a Theoden King gif in here just because I could haha! But as it happens, there's no gif, just me wrapping up the post series with an unexpected addition.

 

God of War kind of took me by surprise and by storm, and that said I've gone through the Greek portion and now the Norse portion fairly quickly, all things considered.

I've already read and watched and reviewed pretty much all there is to the big main games of the series, and thought I was done.

Then I read the official novelization.

And nope, I was not done.

The 2018 God of War book is the choice of the night, and man ... man, is it a doozy. RANT AND SPOILERS AHEAD. You have been warned.

Saturday Snippet: God of War RAGNAROK TRAILER

 

THE HYPE IS UNREAL!

 

xx

*video not mine

Talkie Tuesday: God of War 2018

 

"We are not men. We are more than that. The responsibility is far greater."

 

Hello everyone!

 

Yeah okay, I keep on sort of cheating in this section. SUPPOSEDLY this is where movie reviews go if you look, but I haven't had time to watch many movies consistently in a little bit.

 

Ergo, I have to make do with the rest.

 

And I mean it's not that I'm complaining here, given the fact that the reviews I do eventually post are pretty darn good if I do say so myself, in terms of the topics I choose and the eventual format they take on once I'm done with them.

 

So tonight, as my first official blog post upon my return from vacation, here we are.

 

With another game review, potentially one of the best games of all times released in the recent decade or so.

 

I'm not the only one saying it, by the way, there are others saying the same thing.

 

God of War, the 2018 edition and fourth major installment in the franchise, is here to Spartan Rage.

 

Saturday Snippet: Boy

 

I can now understand the hype behind this xD

HANN TIL RAGNAROKS!

 

xx

*video not mine

Saturday Snippet: Asgard!

 

 

 

Check this gameplay and pay attention!

The plot thickens.

 

xx

*video not mine

Saturday Snippet: Hann til ragnarøks!

xx

*video not mine

Tome Thursday: Hotel Valhalla Guide to the Norse Worlds

Hello everyone!

It's time to defy Ragnarok again!

Okay well, maybe not quite, but MAYBE this gives you an idea about what I'll be talking about tonight.

I've sort of been behind on my reading for a little bit and I need to catch up during the weekend, so I pulled out an old favourite to check through since I've already done some other guide books by the same author.

Rick Riordan has this thing where he writes about deities from any and all cultures, more or less.

Most famously, of course, he breathed life to the one and only Percy Jackson, but another fan favourite was Magnus Chase, or he quickly became one, especially because Magnus is cousin to our Annabeth!

And well ... he's kind of dead.

More on that later.

For now, let's just say that the Hotel Valhalla guide is probably a must-read!

Talkie Tuesday: Thor Ragnarok

"You cannot stop Ragnarok. Why fight it?
Because that's what heroes do!"

Hello everyone!

So, fun story: I've actually been sitting on this movie for some time now, because, well, why would you watch it the second you can, you know? 

I think I honestly just couldn't decide if I was willing to sacrifice 2+ hours when people kept saying the third Thor movie in the Marvel franchise wasn't even close to the first two. But, because AXN has been streaming Avengers (Phase one AND two, would you believe it?), I kind of got the wanderlust to finally sit down and figure out what happens next.

Turns out though I was wrong in waiting as long as I had.

Thor: Ragnarok is, as the title says it is, basically about the end of the world - or, at least, Thor's world, which in this case doesn't necessarily mean Earth. It kind of just means Asgard, but as Asgard was one of the Nine Known Realms of the cosmos connected with Yggdrasil ... you get the idea.

Still, it was one hell of a ride! Grab on to Thor's cape, it's off to Ragnarok we go!

Tome Thursday: Norse Mythology

Hello everyone!

So I made a snap decision to change the book for tonight's blog post. Why? Well, for no other reason than I felt like it.

Plus it took me FOREVER to get my notes in order for the original one, so I figured I might as well leave them to sit there for a bit, then go back and check them again before I decide to post it all up here.

In the meantime, however, I still need to write about something.

Which is why I decided to write about Neil Gaiman and his Norse Mythology book.

Norse mythology is, for all intents and purposes, as rich and varied as Greek or Roman, but unfortunately we just don't have enough written evidence about what happened back then, what people believed. We have fragments - but the whole is lost to us.

It's a sad story, but what we DO have, well, that's pretty brilliant.

Enter, stage right, Neil Gaiman with his all-in-one account of the gods, Norse Mythology.