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I am a huge fan of mythology and each book I read about it I find highly enjoyable and this book is no exception. I didn’t know much detail about Norse myths before I read this (to be honest, my knowledge of Norse mythology is pretty much based on the Thor movies), so most of these stories were new to me. This books includes a collection of some of the best Norse myths like Kvasir's mead and Thor's adventures with the giant Utgard. Even better, they’re in perfect chronological order, starting with creation and ending with the Norse doomsday, Ragnarok. It explains how Einherjar are created, how Ragnarok will happen and end, how the gods depend on Idun's apples of immortality and what happens when they don’t have them and we learn of Loki’s three monstrous children. I haven’t read any of books by this author, but these stories were really well written and made sense of all the complicated lore. I recommend this book to any history lover or just anyone who likes r...

Warning: contains potential spoilers to the Inheritance series of books. I absolutely loved the original Inheritance trilogy of books, so when I heard that there was a new book in the series, it was immediately put on my Christmas wish list. The three earlier books; Eragaon, Eldest and Brisingr are set in a fictional fantasy world of dragons and evil kings and follow the fate of a teenage boy, Eragon and his dragon, Saphira.  This sequel carries on about a year from the events featured in Inheritance. Eragon has surprisingly remained in Alagaësia and has settled on a mountain not to far away where he hopes to train the next generation of dragon riders. Murtagh is wandering Alagaësia with his dragon Thorn under the name of his old friend and teacher Tornac. Angela and Elva are on the run and traversing Alagaësia after Angela broke Elva out of the palace.  We find out that none of the dragon eggs have hatched yet and everyone is just waiting around for something exciting t...

The Enemy is the first book in a series set in a dystopian future. It is a world where everyone over the age of 14 has basically turned into a zombie from the Walking Dead and travel in packs trying to hunt and kill the surviving children.  It follows the stories of Maxie, the second in command of a group of kids who have taken refuge inside of a Waitrose (at least they have nice food!) and Small Sam, a young boy snatched by the zombies. Small Sam escapes from the clutches of the zombies and tries to return to the Waitrose group who have since left to seek shelter at a rumoured refuge in Buckingham Palace told to them by Jester, a kid they meet. When S mall Sam makes it back to Waitrose he now has to scramble to catch up with his former group, fighting his way through zombies and cannibals before he makes friends with an older boy named The Kid. Together they try to reach the palace but who knows what lies in wait? All in all this a great book with all the action and danger of a ...