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.

 

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.

Talkie Tuesday: God of War III

 

"My vengeance ends here."

 

Hello everyone!

 

So I know that not all of you are fans of these videogames, which is why I'm going to be wrapping up my romp through them with this blog post, unless I end up reading the book adaptation in the next little while to add to the collection as well.

 

But for the most part, we've now pretty much come full circle, since we already know what happens to the protagonist afterwards!

 

Well, we THINK we know, in any event.

 

For the past few weeks we've been trailing after Kratos, the demigod son of Zeus, who is on a quest for vengeance because the Greek Gods made a tactical mistake and didn't understand what they ended up creating through their machinations and promises and debts to the guy.

 

I mean, you want to talk about hubris? These idiots have it in spades, and they don't realize what's happening until it's much, much too late.

 

So without further ado, let's look at God of War III.

Saturday Snippet: God of War RAGNAROK TRAILER

 

THE HYPE IS UNREAL!

 

xx

*video not mine

Tome Thursday: God of War

 

Hello everyone!

 

As you can see from the title of tonight's blog post, we're once again venturing into the land of Spartan rage, fickle gods, and the mortals who serve them.

 

I always enjoy looking up novelizations of certain videogames because they usually offer up additional information on a character, their story, and of course the central plot you can get familiar with if you play the game.

 

So when I fell head-first into the God of War franchise, I ended up finding not one, not even two, but THREE novelizations of three game titles.

 

I got into it with the latest installment, which means I'm really interested to read about it from that particular point, but that said I have a slightly OCD mind, and so if I see there are other books prior to the one I want in a series, I have to read those first.

 

I just ... I can't lol.

 

Which also helps me in a way as I learned a whole lot more about Kratos than I knew before I watched that gameplay on Youtube! So without further ado, here we go with the first book of God of War.

 

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

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!

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.