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abbielester 's review for:
Odd and the Frost Giants
by Neil Gaiman
Really, Neil Gaiman is awesome. What else do I need to say. His writing is always so completely absorbing and beautiful and clever.
OK, now I'll talk about the book. This story uses Norse mythology, physical transformation, a trickster who gets out-tricked, and a perfect example of he power of words. Odd is a young boy whose Viking father has died and his mother has remarried a man who hates him. When he takes his father's ax out into the forest, he chops down the tree, but it falls on his foot crippling him. When he's had enough, he goes to his father's hunting shack and tries to reconnect with the man. Instead he meets a trio of animals who are actually gods trapped in animal shape. The gods asked the frost giants to build a wall around their city and then tricked them out of payment, so the frost giants tricked the gods out of the city. There are no physical battles in this book. It's the cleverest guy who wins, and Odd does reconnect with his father and come to some new realizations about his mother who was stolen from her home in Scotland during a raid.
OK, now I'll talk about the book. This story uses Norse mythology, physical transformation, a trickster who gets out-tricked, and a perfect example of he power of words. Odd is a young boy whose Viking father has died and his mother has remarried a man who hates him. When he takes his father's ax out into the forest, he chops down the tree, but it falls on his foot crippling him. When he's had enough, he goes to his father's hunting shack and tries to reconnect with the man. Instead he meets a trio of animals who are actually gods trapped in animal shape. The gods asked the frost giants to build a wall around their city and then tricked them out of payment, so the frost giants tricked the gods out of the city. There are no physical battles in this book. It's the cleverest guy who wins, and Odd does reconnect with his father and come to some new realizations about his mother who was stolen from her home in Scotland during a raid.