![]() Agent: Julia Crisp, Julia Crisp Literary. ![]() It’s an exciting outing that nicely sets up the trilogy’s finale. He also plays fair by giving his characters challenges that sometimes do defeat them, even as they hold the reins on revivified gods. Set in a Norse-inspired world and packed with myth, magic, and vengeance, this second book in John Gwynnes Bloodsworn trilogy is the next chapter an.Gwynne keeps mainly to the Norse elements that make his prose ring with verisimilitude, but he expands his world with a visit to the mighty southern empire of Iskidan that gives the book a bit of a Byzantine feel. While reborn gods take to the skies to fight for dominion, mortals plot, scheme, and betray down below, all in the name of power. But Orka and Uspa have war bands of their own, along with monsters called vaesen and spell books written by the gods that can resurrect and enthrall even long-deceased deities. ![]() As Orka Skullsplitter and Uspa, the Seidr-witch, both search for their stolen children, their quests lead them into the path of the Lik-Rifa’s fierce war band. ![]() Lik-Rifa, the dragon god, is free from her prison and marches with her dragon-born Tainted followers to conquer the divided realms of Vigrid in Gwynne’s furious, battle-filled follow-up to The Shadow of the Gods. ![]()
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