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Runelight by Joanne Harris
Mar. 21st, 2012 11:35 pmThe Blurb On The Back:
Six hundred miles apart, two girls each bear on their skin a runemark: a symbol of the old days when the known Worlds were rules by the gods from their sky citadel, Asgard.
But Asgard now lies in ruins, and the power of the gods has long since been destroyed.
Or so everyone thinks …
Filled with inventive and humorous detail, trickery and treachery, carnage and lunacy, Runelight is the second title in a series of gloriously imaginative and dramatic tales about the Norse gods.
( The Review (Cut For Spoilers): )
The Verdict:
Joanne Harris’s sequel to RUNEMARKS is another entertaining YA fantasy that reinvents Norse mythology and brings it to a new generation. It’s storytelling on an epic scale, which does mean that at times I lost track of which character was which and I also found it overwritten at some points. But this doesn’t detract from it being an enjoyable and entertaining read and I can’t wait to read the next one.
RUNELIGHT was released in the UK on 3rd November 2011. Thanks to the Amazon Vine Programme for the ARC of this book.
Six hundred miles apart, two girls each bear on their skin a runemark: a symbol of the old days when the known Worlds were rules by the gods from their sky citadel, Asgard.
But Asgard now lies in ruins, and the power of the gods has long since been destroyed.
Or so everyone thinks …
Filled with inventive and humorous detail, trickery and treachery, carnage and lunacy, Runelight is the second title in a series of gloriously imaginative and dramatic tales about the Norse gods.
( The Review (Cut For Spoilers): )
The Verdict:
Joanne Harris’s sequel to RUNEMARKS is another entertaining YA fantasy that reinvents Norse mythology and brings it to a new generation. It’s storytelling on an epic scale, which does mean that at times I lost track of which character was which and I also found it overwritten at some points. But this doesn’t detract from it being an enjoyable and entertaining read and I can’t wait to read the next one.
RUNELIGHT was released in the UK on 3rd November 2011. Thanks to the Amazon Vine Programme for the ARC of this book.
