Orka, Varg, and Elvar return as points of view now with two added, Guðvarr, the stooge nephew of one of the jarls who went after Orka, and daughter Biórr, the dragon-born who betrayed the Battlegrim and killed their leader before helping free the dragon-god.

The Hunger of the Gods, the follow-up to The Shadow of the Gods, picks up right where it left off with the dragon-god Lik-Rifa now set loose on the world, Varg finding out he has tainted blood along with all of the Bloodsworn, and Orka revealed to be a former member and her murdered husband brother to Glornir, their leader.

Whoever told the people of John Gwynne’s series The Bloodsworn Saga that the gods would stay fallen after the Guðfalla may have spoken too soon.

epic, gritty fantasy with an uncompromising amount of heart.We decide what is the way of the world. epic, gritty fantasy with an uncompromising amount of heart.' -FanFiAddict 'A masterfully crafted, brutally compelling Norse-inspired epic.' -Anthony Ryan It’s everything I’ve come to expect from a John Gwynne book.' -Robin Hobb “There is not a dull chapter in this fantasy epic.” -Vulture (Best of the Year) A book of forbidden magic with the power to raise the wolf god Ulfrir from the dead.and bring about a battle that will shake the foundations of the earth. Their only hope lies within the mad writings of a chained god. Yet even the might of the Bloodsworn and Battle-Grim cannot stand alone against a dragon god. Now she plots a new age of blood and conquest.Īs Orka continues the hunt for her missing son, the Bloodsworn sweep south in a desperate race to save one of their own–and Varg takes the first steps on the path of vengeance.Įlvar has sworn to fulfil her blood oath and rescue a prisoner from the clutches of Lik-Rifa and her dragonborn followers, but first she must persuade the Battle-Grim to follow her. Lik-Rifa, the dragon god of legend, has been freed from her eternal prison. Packed with myth, magic, and bloody vengeance, John Gwynne's 'masterfully crafted, brutally compelling, Norse-inspired epic' (Anthony Ryan) continues in The Hunger of the Gods.

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