I did miss the scenes when Snorri talks about his past that we had in the first book, because they made it easier to care for him and his struggles. So what was missing in the interactions between Jalan and Snorri – as the latter is suffering from a wound and not prone to chatting – is provided by the secondary characters. The plot took a while to pick up, but the situation gets better with the addition of Kara, and then Hennan, to the group. The narrator does an amazing job at conveying Jalan’s personality and the tone of the story in general.
Maybe it’s because of that that I pushed through the second time. As much as I love the characters, I found it boring and abandoned the book after a few chapters, only to pick it up again toward the end of the year – this time, in audiobook format. Well, for once, the beginning was a bit hard to digest, at least for me. The elements are all there: the charismatic protagonist, the honest and irreprensibile friend, and the journey. Thus begins the new adventure of the duo we came to love in the first book.
Of course this life can’t last forever, and at one point is forced to leave before he’s punished for his endeavour thankfully, his flight coincides with Snorri’s departure for the south in search of death’s door. Winter is finally relaxing his grasp on the north – or so they say for Jalan, the weather is still too cold to do anything other than laying in bed, possibly with the wife of one man or another. The story opens six months after the events of the first book. That’s pretty much what I was expecting from the second book in the series as well, minus the travel what I got instead was a lot of travelling, and a bit less of what made the characters stand out so much to me. Even though the story itself is a classic quest, I still found the characters – especially the protagonist – to be interesting enough to follow them for hundreds of pages. I read the first book of this series in August and I really enjoyed it. Now in possession of Loki’s key, he only needs one more thing before he can bring back his wife and children: to find death’s door, and open it.īut their enemies have eyes on the key, and they won’t make his search easy. Prince Jalan Kendeth has spent the winter in the north, hiding from the cold – and from the husbands of his conquests, until the day comes when he is forced to leave and embarks in a new journey with Snorri, this time heading south – music to Jalan’s ears, already dreaming of home and all its comforts.īut comfort is the last thing on Snorri’s mind.
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