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3.34 AVERAGE
3.34 AVERAGE
Fun take on gods and the modern world, love the humour and Freya is a very interesting character, reminds me a lot of Lish McBride
This is the last book I read as an ambassador for the Dutch publisher BlossomBooks last year. I loved this book, but I haven’t heard anything yet about whether they are going to translate it or not. But the book is published now, so let me post my review :)
First of all, I love the idea of the book, and I love the cover. The idea is also not just good, but also worked out in a great way. I love the world and the interaction between characters and other gods.
I also love how amazingly badass Freya is, She is a powerchick with a great sense of humor and the guy is just hobbling behind her and doing bits and pieces. Just the opposite of an average YA where the guy is the hero and the girl is just being in love :)
The writing is very comfortable to read and very well done. I have a complete image of Freya and how she acts in my head. And I like little details about our society,
The worldbuilding is done in a way that it is written in conversation, so you really only get everything you need, and no other nice things the writer has made up all fitted in some awkward history lesson or something. I love these details seems to mock other YA books in their averageness.
I’m looking forward to the second book!
First of all, I love the idea of the book, and I love the cover. The idea is also not just good, but also worked out in a great way. I love the world and the interaction between characters and other gods.
I also love how amazingly badass Freya is, She is a powerchick with a great sense of humor and the guy is just hobbling behind her and doing bits and pieces. Just the opposite of an average YA where the guy is the hero and the girl is just being in love :)
The writing is very comfortable to read and very well done. I have a complete image of Freya and how she acts in my head. And I like little details about our society,
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like when she goes shopping, her curves that match an god of love does not fit in our dresses.The worldbuilding is done in a way that it is written in conversation, so you really only get everything you need, and no other nice things the writer has made up all fitted in some awkward history lesson or something.
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I also like it that when she is captured and she tries to find a way out, that it all goes not as she expected. That she finds doors that lead to nowhere, no guards to point her to where something is being protected..I’m looking forward to the second book!
Hmmmm, er bestaat denk ik geen schrijfstijl die minder bij mij past dan deze :)
What a fun romp! Freya is a blast throughout and is a fast and furious read. Fantasy seems awash with "what if the gods are real and still hanging out in modern life" but this is a unique take on the idea that is informed by, but not copying, predecessors such as American Gods or Supernatural.
Freya (the character) is a mix of godly haughtiness and human foibles. At times vain and selfish (she is literally the goddess of vanity, after all), she tempers her divine persona with charm, cleverness, loyalty, and love.
Some of the back-and-forth quips are hilarious. The whole book contains a healthy portion of comedy, with a large heap of action, that rises into a delicious souffle. Already looking forward to the sequel!
Freya (the character) is a mix of godly haughtiness and human foibles. At times vain and selfish (she is literally the goddess of vanity, after all), she tempers her divine persona with charm, cleverness, loyalty, and love.
Some of the back-and-forth quips are hilarious. The whole book contains a healthy portion of comedy, with a large heap of action, that rises into a delicious souffle. Already looking forward to the sequel!
Super enjoyable read, loved the idea of ancient Gods and Goddesses working at Disney (why not right?). Freya was AWESOME as a character and I love the sheer amount of different pantheons in here. I'm assuming there's a sequel coming from the ending so I can't wait to read it!!!
3.5 overall
Freya had a choppy start and took a good 80 pages for the story to build properly and get to the good parts: Freya's adventure inside Finemdi.
A lot of the more secondary characters and narrative plots were poorly constructed and detailed, but Laurence definitely made up for it with Freya's character and the diverse cast of other immortals Freya runs into throughout the book.
Freya had a choppy start and took a good 80 pages for the story to build properly and get to the good parts: Freya's adventure inside Finemdi.
A lot of the more secondary characters and narrative plots were poorly constructed and detailed, but Laurence definitely made up for it with Freya's character and the diverse cast of other immortals Freya runs into throughout the book.
Slowly started to lose interest until I finally gave up all pretenses and officially moved on. Dropped.
Fun, light read about gods/goddesses who've been forgotten and collected by an evil corporation.
Great concept a la American Gods by Neil Gaiman and The Immortals by Jordanna Brodsky. Freya is fun to read. This story is heavy on the violence but has zero sex which is weird b/c Freya is supposed to be the goddess of love. She can charm people and make them love her but she never wants/gets sex?? I know it's a YA title but the violence is explicit and heavy so what is the problem?
DNF @ 50 pages
I tried to do my 5 chapters to give this book a chance, but the chapters were too long and I was done, so I just read the first chapter and skimmed/mostly read the second and third. This book very much felt like it was written by an adult man writing a teenage girl (well, she's a goddess who's lived thousands of years, but she's perpetually a late-teen/early-twentysomething, so it's relevant), using terms like "teenybop killer" and talking about how she's curvy and the embodiment of beauty, yet all the clothes are for stick-thin girls and she almost doubts her own beauty (good point, but the execution didn't really work for me) but without actually being a problem - more like it was included because body image is a popular thing to talk about now, not because it was something Freya/Sara really thought about. The voice just didn't work for me, and if I didn't feel like reading just the five chapters to get a better impression, then the whole book definitely wouldn't work for me. Maybe it'll work for someone who has less experience with YA, but there are much better YA books about gods, and better YA in general, so I'll pass.
I tried to do my 5 chapters to give this book a chance, but the chapters were too long and I was done, so I just read the first chapter and skimmed/mostly read the second and third. This book very much felt like it was written by an adult man writing a teenage girl (well, she's a goddess who's lived thousands of years, but she's perpetually a late-teen/early-twentysomething, so it's relevant), using terms like "teenybop killer" and talking about how she's curvy and the embodiment of beauty, yet all the clothes are for stick-thin girls and she almost doubts her own beauty (good point, but the execution didn't really work for me) but without actually being a problem - more like it was included because body image is a popular thing to talk about now, not because it was something Freya/Sara really thought about. The voice just didn't work for me, and if I didn't feel like reading just the five chapters to get a better impression, then the whole book definitely wouldn't work for me. Maybe it'll work for someone who has less experience with YA, but there are much better YA books about gods, and better YA in general, so I'll pass.