Book Review: Norse Code

Mist is a brand-new Valkyrie, tapped for the job after dying in a shooting robbery with her sister. Her job is to test men and recruit them for Odin's army of the dead to fight in Ragnarok. But what she really wants to do is travel to Helheim and rescue her sister. But the world is falling apart around her, preparing for Ragnarok, and loyalties are deeply uncertain.

I found the premise of this book very interesting, but it wasn't executed as well as it could have been. Too many characters with too many subplots in too small of a space kept me from connecting to any of them or caring about most of the plots. None of the characters were relateable, mostly because the reader doesn't get to spend enough time with any of them. The chemistry between characters was sorely lacking. And other than the overarching "Ragnarok is coming" plot, the threads of plots got tangled and difficult to follow due to all the interactions and characters involved.

I think this book needed to be about 100 pages longer, if not more, in order to add in more exposition, character building, and relationship building.

2/5