Ana E. Way

  Thanks to NetGalley for this eArc I've discovered Genevieve Gornichec's first novel through NetGalley and enjoyed it so much that I knew I would love this one, and I wasn't disappointed. It also takes place in Scandinavia (more precisely, Norway in the tenth century) but it isn't centered around gods like the previous one. We follow two friends trying to rescue their sister and we see what they are willing to do to see her back. There is a lot of violence in this book, as we see the aftermath of a Viking raid. There is also violence we don't see and can only imagine. But there is also, and above all, love, friendship and loyalty. I love seeing friendships between women in books, especially in a society so pregnant with misogynistic beliefs.  I don't know anything about Viking culture and I really don't understand how they could work as a society if anyone could be a victim of raids. Like, what was the point of them? Maybe, like Gunnhild said, there were to