backtalking to Norse gods as a hobby

[meganbmoore]

I'm reading Mickey Zucker Reichert's Bifrost Guardians series about mortals caught up in the conflicts of the norse gods.  While this may sound relatively normal, I'd like to point out that our heroes are a soldier killed in Vietnam and transported into the body of an lf, a german thief, and a samurai warrior.  As these guys never heard of the norse gods before getting there, they lack the proper respect due to the gods and, not over pleased with having their lives manipulated, they backtalk.  A lot.  Guess it changes things a lot whn you know they need you alive.

Not that they're all necessarily all there to start with...the soldier is pretty much insane, the thief thinks "Impossible defenses and 5000000 death traps" means "please come steal from me," and the samurai ended the first book by announcing that he was going to go raid hell and get his mistress(of the Lord and Master variety) back.  Clearly, their brains to not operate in the same realms of reality as others.

There will be a proper post on it later(it's 5 short books in 2 omnibuses and I'm near the end of the 3rd and will have the second monday or Tuesday, so I'm just waiting until I've read the whole set for a proper post)

For the curous, comics, manga, and hopefully a coupla trades aside, reading goal for the month is these, the rest of the Dark Hunters series, and the rest of the 2146 series.

ETA:  Hmm...just realized...I got Eldest a few months back but haven't rad it yet...probably because, while I like the world and story and adore Murtagh, I can't stand Eragon himself.  I also need to get and read the more recent Simon R. Green and Juliet Marrillier books.

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[magicnoire.livejournal.com]

Oh my god, Bifrost Guardians! It's been forever since I read those books. I think I still have a couple of the original novels lying around here somewhere.

...unfortunately, I remember next to nothing about them except for the part where the Vietnam soldier gets transported into the body of the elf and gets pissed off because he loses all his muscle definition. (It's sad which details get stuck in my head.)

[meganbmoore.livejournal.com]

lol...yes...book 3 and he's still bitter about that. I like that it's this very sious series and story, yet the author shamelessly inserts insane crack into it, and you KNOW she did it deliberately.

*I have a suspicion the samurai may be an actual historical figure*

The Legend of Nightfall is still my favorite of her books, and is why there's a fair number of them in my backlog, even though I'd only read it and Unknown Soldier until now.

[magicnoire.livejournal.com]

Did you know that the author's a surgeon or something along those lines? Actually, I want to say something insane like brain surgeon but I'm not 100% sure. I remember reading it in a couple DAW anthologies I have.

(Legend of Nightfall is my favorite books of hers too.)

[meganbmoore.livejournal.com]

oooo...no, I didn't know that. Nightfall is just great. I think there's a sequel, but I'm not sure. I was largely out of high fantasy for a coupla years there and only got back into it very late last year.

[magicnoire.livejournal.com]

I'm pretty sure there is a sequel, but I haven't read it either. Like you, I mostly stopped reading high fantasy for the past couple of years while I went on my urban fantasy rampage.

But seeing as I think I've reached my saturation point, I'm slowly sliding back into good regular fantasy land. :)

[meganbmoore.livejournal.com]

ditto, word for word, pretty much. It's been all urban fantasy, mystery, and some historical fantasy and fiction for me the last couple years, but now I'm sliding back towards high fantasy and romances.

I think I reached my saturation point for Urban Fantasy, too. A least, for it to be what I read the most of. My reading i'm starting to be more diverse these days, manga and novels. or at least, back to being more diverse.