By the Mountain Bound (Hardcover) by Elizabeth Bear

from KarenIrelandPhillips

The 3 1/2 stars isn't is more reflective of the fact that I read it singly, instead of as part of its trilogy. I'm trying not to read trilogies piecemeal - I already follow too many universes to keep effective track of all of them. And Norse mythology has never been a favorite of mine, though Bea...

from cat8864

I read "All the Windwracked Stars" last year and enjoyed it. This one? Not so much. For some reason it didn't seem as interesting as the previous. The attention is split between three characters - the warrior (Strifbjorne), the historian (Muire) and the wolf (Mingan) - which just becomes a little...

from sageness

Make it 2.5 stars, maybe? I liked some of this quite a bit and was very eh on other things - especially the batshit decisions to DIE HORRIBLY everyone kept making, rather than using a modicum of sense and thinking of a solution. Like invoking some help from a being who could give it before it was...