![]() ![]() So anyway, after all that, Atticus then has to make plans to go BACK to Asgard, to keep his word on a very foolish promise to another person, his friend/lawyer Leif, a 1,000 year old vampire who has an extreme grudge against Thor. The only one he missed was Fenris wolf, and fuck you Atticus if you come for Fenris I’m not going to read your books anymore END SPOILERS. Anyway, don’t click because spoilers. Let’s list them out: Ratatosk, the enormous squirrel that lives on Yggdrasil the World Tree (okay, well to be fair, Atticus didn’t pull the trigger himself on this one, but it’s directly his fault Ratatosk is dead, so) the Norns (because they’re just cool, and Atticus chops their heads off) and Sleipnir, Odin’s steed, but more importantly Loki’s son from that one time he was a mare and lured a stallion into having sex with him (seriously, what the fuck, Atticus, WHAT THE FUCK). But in doing so, he does some dumb shit, and also most of it made me mad because SPOILERS he literally kills all but one of my favorite figures from Norse mythology. It opens with Atticus keeping his promise to Laksha, that he would steal one of Idunn’s golden apples, so that she can be immortal. ![]() ![]() Well, firstly, me and this book started off in a bad place. ![]()
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