✨"Destiny is All"✨ is all I could hear as I read this. IYKYK.

The way this started gave me chills. Those 1st couple of chapters were so atmospheric I couldn't sleep until the whole betrayal scene cut. I think Giles Kristian is one of my favorite authors because bestie knows how to manipulate my mental imagery. My room became snowy, cold Norway in 785, and my friend's family was about to go through shit. I had a coat and boots and everything, and I was laughing and then crying with Sigurd.

I didn't expect to feel much in the duration of this book, but the balance of fleeing, handling emotions, and carrying out revenge was kind of perfect. The amount of vulnerability that Sigurd had to be brave enough to show especially when he ‘sacrificed’ himself to meet Odin! It wasn't a light book because heavy things happened. But it was a light book in tone, which is exactly my taste.

The characters were my favorite part.