BOOK REVIEW | THE FIRE IN THE FROST | LYRA WOLF

 

BOOK REVIEW | THE FIRE IN THE FROST | LYRA WOLF

 

ABOUT THE BOOK

Going from god to mortal is rough. Getting cursed is worse.

 Loki, former God of Chaos, thought becoming mortal was his biggest challenge. He was wrong. When Frigg unleashes a devastating curse upon the gods of Asgard, Loki is imprisoned in the depths of Hel and the Nine Worlds are plunged into chaos.

 The key to breaking the curse lies in a dangerous incantation—one that only Sigyn can translate. But finding her may be harder than escaping Hel itself. And even if they do, there’s something about Sigyn that’s changed, something that could doom their chances entirely.

 Trapped without his powers, Loki’s exiled children may be his only hope to save Asgard. As memories of pain and betrayal rise to the surface, past choices may work against him. Not to mention the wicked surprise Frigg has up her sleeve.

 Curses need breaking, tensions keep flaring, and risks are even more dire than they realized as Jotenheim–Asgard’s fiercest enemy–sees their chance to seize power and rule the worlds instead.

 Loki is desperate for a plan, even if he loses everything, including his life—however, once a trickster, always a trickster, even if mortal. But the biggest trick of all might come from a god no one ever expected.

REVIEW

Draugr, curses and a trip to Loki’s past set up the final instalment of The Nine Worlds Rising series by Lyra Wolf.

In The Fire in the Frost, the titular god of Mischief, Loki Laufeyjarson, is bound by a curse from his old nemesis Frigg. In an attempt to stop Ragnarök once and for all, Frigg has constructed a curse called the Salvation Weave which will bind Loki again and hopefully avert Ragnarök once and for all, even though it happened in the last book and things are all okay.

However, in order to bind Loki and his sons, Frigg needs to bind him with the guts of Hel.

In order to make the curse work, Frigg then sends Sigyn back to where the story began, Basel, Switzerland as she is the only one that can break the curse. However, there is one major complication – Frigg has erased all Sigyn’s memory of Loki and their life together.

Along with his sons, Fenrir and Jorg, Loki sets about trying to locate Sigyn in Basel and getting her to use her powers to free Asgard and himself from the power of the curse.

The book is split into two points of view. Firstly, there is Loki who has to try to stop the curse, and secondly there is Baldur’s point of view, whose point of view shows what is happening in Asgard as the curse takes effect and the Frost Giants of Jutenheim attack Asgard.

As usual Lyra Wolf brings the characters vividly to life. Loki, is his usual self. But with the loss of his powers he has to manage the situation rather differently.

There is the usual mix of romance, comedy and adventure that makes these books enjoyable. And in addition to this, Loki repairs some of the relationships that have caused him so much trouble in the past.

The Fire in the Frost closes the series well and brings the series to a satisfying conclusion with all the loose ends tied neatly together.