BLACK ICE continues along the same Norse vein as Susan Krinard’s first MIDGARD installment while adding even more characters, mythology and plot threads to the mix. In this book readers get to tag along as Mist preps for the coming battle with Loki by recruiting soldiers, locating the missing Valkyrie & their Treasures, and honing […]
Hello, I thought my contribution to Stomp Vs. Romp might be a series of Haiku representing my protagonist, Mist—her status, her problems, her goals—and a few of the events of BLACK ICE (plus a foreshadowing of next summer’s book, BATTLESTORM.) I particularly enjoy this poetry form. It has elegance to it, even if I’m not […]
In MIST, Susan Krinard dives straight into the thick of Norse mythology by assuming that most readers are somewhat knowledgeable about Ragnarök and the lore surrounding it. The lack of back story didn’t bother me overly much thanks in large part to Kevin Hearne’s IRON DRUID CHRONICLES, and Jennifer Estep’s MYTHOS ACADEMY series’ having prepared […]