Just Couldn’t Finish Reading: Sleipnir by Linda Evans.

I really should’ve taken more notice of the tag line of this book: OK, Odin – Make my day! That should have warned me off this novel before I parted with my money. Luckily I’d actually picked this up in a second hand shop so didn’t feel all that cheated.

Anyway, as to the story….. As far as I can tell after struggling through the first 150 pages this was basically a tale of revenge. When a soldier’s best friend is killed in an accident he starts seeing and experiencing strange things including a sighting of Sleipnir (the Norse God Odin’s trusty steed) and the activities of a strange knife with a mind of its own. Swearing revenge against the God he considers the killer of his friend, the soldier (I can’t remember his name and can’t work up the effort to look through the book until I find it) finds his way into the Norse underworld looking for a fight…. And that’s as far as I got before I gave up.

This might have been an interesting idea but I thought it was very badly told. I didn’t really care very much about any of the characters and, after a while, thought that the whole thing was just plain silly. It’s just possible that this book suffered in comparison to the previous two fantasy novels – both of which had been really good – but I think that might be being a bit too kind. Basically this book was borderline rubbish and I don’t have the time or the energy to wade my way through books like this. Needless to say I’d recommend that you avoid it.