A Reading Machine

I loved reading Kings of the Wyld. The story is a straightforward one. A father wants to rescue his daughter from certain death. To do so he must reform his old band Saga, cross the wild Heartwyld, destroy a vast horde of monsters and break the siege that is holding her captive. It’s something he could not have imagined doing in his prime and now that he and his friends have been dormant for 20 years the odds seem even more remote. Except that he never had a daughter to rescu

This was great fun and after getting through the first few pages and its long unpronounceable names it turned into a very easy read. The stories are short, travelling is never embellished and we get a refreshed look at some familiar characters like Odin , Loki, and Thor. It starts at the beginning and ends with Ragnarok, the end of the cycle and the start of a new one. There is some amazing imagery at work here like a snake that grows so big it encircles the earth under the w

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