(3.0 Stars)

This book should be right in my wheelhouse; a Norse Fantasy! 

However, this book was very slow in pace and just didn't make me feel the sense of urgency and despair that the characters were feeling. I won't say it was boring, but the action seemed anti-climactic and the character bonding didn't always make sense to me. I found most of the characters to be underdeveloped, or like they lacked motivation for the actions they were performing, and I never really got a great feel of the world they were living in.

For full disclosure, I am reading a translated version (into English) of this book, so there might be some cultural or linguistic features lost in that translation. The narrator was excellent and changed her tone and cadence to bring familiarity and recognition to each of the main characters.

If I had to compare this book to anything else I've read, I'd say it reminds me a lot of Christina Henry's The Chronicles of Alice series. Both, in style and in pace. 

At the end of this book there is a preview chapter of the second book in the series (The Rot) which seemed to be a little more accessible... So, maybe this book is just a lot of historic/background for the main plot? I hope so because there was an immediate recognition of the world (modern), and the preview made me interested in reading (at least) the second book in the series.

Thank you #NetGalley for making this audiobook available for reading and review.