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This was such a promising book, I started it with such excitement, yet in the end it all went down in flames.
I was entertained for a while, but around 50% I started to lose all hope and by 70% I was miserable. I truly only finished the book so I could know my feelings were justified and so I could write a raging review.
The premise of the book is so intriguing, the pace is fast and gripping and there was just so much potential in the beginning.
But the mc is a horrible, horrible character. Also the writing style simply is not good. The plot could have gone so many different places and be so rich, so fulfilling yet unfortunately it went where most romantasy plots go to die. In order to make the love interest look good, the mc was deprived of all the love and support she could have gotten from friends and family. All of her loved ones either got killed off or turned cruel towards her, just so the love interest could step up and be the one she could trust and love.
There was intense rivalry between the female characters and the only 2 who have been nice to the mc got killed off immediately.
There wasn't any solid reason for Freya to hate Ylva (and visa versa) yet they kept bickering and fighting.
The plot only moved forward because Freya acted on ALL her urges with irrational rage. If she were to stop and listen to the people around her, at any moment in the book, there would not be any action scenes. They fight, people die, war and destruction occurs ALL because she never listens; instead misinterprets events in her head and then attacks! (Also where and when did she learn to fight so well all of a sudden after being a farmer and a fisher's wife all her life? She trained for like a week!)
Her loyalty to her family felt very empty, they were there just to make the love interest look better and yet she kept sacrificing herself for them to no apparent end. But then she turns around and completely forgets about them with no mourning, no regrets, no feelings aside from maybe two sentences where she sheds a few tears.
On the other hand she spent maybe a week with Bodil and she acted as if she was raised by her, as if she owed her everything she was.
The love plotline was, similarly, incredibly fast and illogically deep. The events of this book happens maybe over 3 months, maybe less. And yet Freya and Bjorn are so deeply in love, so devoted to each other by page 20. Although I understand attraction at first sight; this type of love and bond requires time, companionship, friendship and trust. They know nearly nothing about each other and spent maybe 3 months in each other's company (of which maybe 3 times they were alone) and I'm expected to believe in the strength of their bond?? Their LOVE??? GIRL, WHERE????
Another thing; this is an approximately 400 page book and Freya spends about 350 pages of it * s c r e a m i n g *. Whether it's out of rage, denial or desperation; she constantly screams. She's so immature. Never listens, never even thinks.
I will not spoil the events of the book in case someone wants to experience this trainwreck for themselves but there were different occasions where I was just tired of all the ridiculous things that popped up to keep the plot moving.
There was one point where I was actually surprised by the turn of events but other than that it was easily predictable since it follows a very basic outline for most romantasy books.
AND THERE WAS SO MUCH POTENTIAL! The Norse mythology, the gods, the powers, the magic!! All wasted for the sake of achieving a few popular tropes.
What a sad, disappointing outcome.