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This is the last book! I thought there were two more!

December 28, 2017 by narfna Leave a Comment

Well, if this is the last new Riordan book I ever read, it’s a great one to go out on. Despite my fatigue with Riordan’s shenanigans, I’ve actually really enjoyed this series. It was *just* fresh enough, with the Norse mythology and some all-time great characters of types he hadn’t written before to make it worth my time (Hearthstone and Alex Fierro are my children). I also appreciated that it was a trilogy, and not a stretched out quadrology (I was super surprised several weeks ago […]

Filed Under: Children's Books, Fantasy Tagged With: fantasy, magnus chase and the gods of asgard, middle grade, narfna, norse mythology, retellings, Rick Riordan, the ship of the dead

narfna's CBR9 Review No:114 · Genres: Children's Books, Fantasy · Tags: fantasy, magnus chase and the gods of asgard, middle grade, narfna, norse mythology, retellings, Rick Riordan, the ship of the dead ·
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Thor needs to keep track of his shit.

December 29, 2016 by narfna 2 Comments

What a silly book. At this point I think I’ve given up expecting to see anything new from Rick Riordan, and yet I’m going to keep reading his books, so I think I shall make a vow to not talk about how repetitive they are, and how he just keeps doing the same thing over and over again with variations. After that sentence I mean. In the future I shall call this The Riordan Factor and link back to this review as an explanation. It […]

Filed Under: Children's Books, Fantasy Tagged With: fantasy, magnus chase, magnus chase and the gods of asgard, middle grade, mythology, narfna, norse mythology, Rick Riordan, the hammer of thor

narfna's CBR8 Review No:158 · Genres: Children's Books, Fantasy · Tags: fantasy, magnus chase, magnus chase and the gods of asgard, middle grade, mythology, narfna, norse mythology, Rick Riordan, the hammer of thor ·
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Rick Riordan does his thing.

April 10, 2016 by narfna 4 Comments

I guess I don’t really have much to say about this book, except that it was exactly what I was expecting it to be, and that ended up being an okay thing. I have come to accept that Riordan is now a one-trick pony. He just happens to be very good at that one trick. You pretty much know all the beats of this story ahead of time if you’ve read his other demigod books, but that doesn’t stop you from enjoying yourself anyway, and […]

Filed Under: Fantasy Tagged With: children's fiction, fantasy, magnus chase and the gods of asgard, mythology, narfna, Rick Riordan, the sword of summer

narfna's CBR8 Review No:49 · Genres: Fantasy · Tags: children's fiction, fantasy, magnus chase and the gods of asgard, mythology, narfna, Rick Riordan, the sword of summer ·
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