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Vengeance (Northworld, No. 2)

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Wonderful retelling of the Norse/Tuetonic/Icelandic Myths. The entire series reads well, Drakes wording has interesting twists and clever phrases. Plenty of action and intrigue.

Drake has created and continues his Northworld universe. These are very interesting novels of action/combat and Sci-Fi chivalry.

Read Northworld first.

This novel would more appropriately be considered either a long short story or an outright play. There are three separate lines of action. First, the main character, Hansen, is attempting to lead a group of knights in power armor in a battle against a rival faction. Second, the same main character is attempting to reverse engineer a type of hovercraft to use. Third, the great smith Sparrow has been imprisoned by the King opposing Hansen.

The chapters are extremely brief, mostly about 5 pages. The overall setting is never described, only the "stage" on which the current action takes place. The background of the universe itself is only very roughly thumbnailed. Characters are not fully developed. The main characters have a lot of sex which is rarely described except a rape scene near the end.

The lack of character development and setting make the action less interesting. Hansen leads his knights and followers and some of them die to make the story grittier and realistic, but they were hardly properly introduced to begin with anyway.

The author's last word explains that this is an adaptation of some tales from Norse mythology so if you're an expert in that arena perhaps you'll find this novel a bit easier to follow.