Loki's Wolves - Kelley Armstrong and Melissa Marr.

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Emma's Rating: 4/5

Ashvini's Rating: 3/5

Emma:

This book was a bit slow. It was one of those books that you read not because your very interested, it's one those books you read because you want to see hat happens. I'm not exactly going to be rushing into reading the third book. I've already read the second book and I have to say it's pretty much the same as this book when it comes to pace. I did like the whole Norse mythology concept though. It was cool but a little bit confusing. It's not like I was a Norse mythology expert when I went into this book, so for me as a beginner I kind of wish things were explained a bit more. I honestly don't remember much about this book at all. I'm feeling guilty so I'm going to add one more sentence. I really liked the pictures. Oh, another thing Ashvini's making me do this post. (Ashvini: It was on your list.) 

Ashvini:

This book was an okay read. It wasn’t bad or marvelous, it was just okay. Here’s why:

 Loki’s Wolves alternates between the perspectives of the three main characters: Matt, Fen, and Laurie. It didn’t matter whose perspective I was reading in, within the first chapter of each perspective, I was confused. A lot of things in this book weren’t explained thoroughly for me, they were just “mentioned” (e.g. The whole paying dues to the local pack situation; or the scenario where Laurie turned into a fish) and as the story progressed those things were never explained, they were just brought up in conversation with another character briefly, and put back in the storage trunk once more. Just like the mythology in this book. I remember reading the myth about Frey and Freya and kind of wishing that it was tied to something more such as humour, or something similar to make it more memorable. I know the conversation strategy used in this book worked for a lot of people. I know a friend who really loved this specific writing style of the mythology. It just really didn’t work for me in particular.

I also feel like a lot of thoughts to be rushed while others were very repetitive of the same topic. I also kind of felt like the whole quest of Matt, Fen and Laurie has been made to seem really big at first and then kind of simplified along the way. Meaning that they got some of the answers too easily in my opinion (the clues they got from The Norns, and the answers they got from the warrior ladies.)

I did like some things though. Fen and Laura’s really close bond which you don’t often get to see in Middle Grade novels. I also liked how Fen and Matt weren’t friends at the start. Oh, and am I the only one who kind of shiped Latt at the start? So my overall, experience with this book was a trip on a freight train – not very steady consistently. I also think this book could have taken more turns; it played a little safe throughout. It also could’ve been a bit more explanatory in my opinion. Melanie was here - Shoutout to Melanie if you're reading this.
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Yours Truly,
Emma and Ashvini