Twilight of the Gods

by Scott Oden

Book Overview

A Gathering of Ravens was called "satisfying...complex...and a pleasure to read" (Publishers Weekly, starred review). Now, Scott Oden continues the saga of Grimnir in this new epic Viking fantasy novel, Twilight of the Gods.

In A Gathering of Ravens, he fought for vengeance. Now, Grimnir is back to fight for his survival.

It is the year of Our Lord 1218 and in the land of the Raven-Geats, the Old...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0312372957
• ISBN13: 9780312372958
• Release Date: February 2020
• Publisher: St. Martin's Press
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 1.24 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.5" x 9.5"

Customer Reviews

Glorified fan fiction with good punctuation.

Dialogue was like reading a transcription of Tony Blair debate Peter O’Toole about jethro Tull lyrics. I laughed out loud a few times in the chapters I managed to force myself through. I mean the dialogue is beyond stiff. The authors strong suit is violence which quickly gets extremely repetitive and unimaginative. Main character comes off as a scary version of Shrek with his odd couple buddy rambling around with no real plot. Uses the same handful of adjectives over and over and over again. Murderous, homicidal, ferocious, and wretched. I mean he LOVES wretched. Hardly a page that doesn’t have at least one of these words in the many many speeches the main character rambles on about himself. The white Christ angle was comical, like he actually wants the reader to believe the Danes, Geats or Irish had never seen a white guy before. Bought it because the author marketed himself as a new Robert E Howard disciple and has a rabid social media following of around 25 amateur writers. Authors like this are the reason so many fans of the genre would rather reread their REH books multiple times than roll the dice on the newer stuff like this that at its best is derivative. Even the book titles have been used many times before. If you are looking for REH style heroic fiction you won’t find it in this book. I would have never guessed Oden had even read a REH story before. His writing style is more of a bloviating Salvatore. My guess is he will be writing Warhammer books in the near future. I can’t express enough the lack of substance in the storytelling. If you were a fan of Shrek at age 5-8 and are now 10-12 then this may be something you would like. Oden got in on exploiting the Norse mythology angle about 10 years to late.