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Loki's Child is a tale of music, revolution, and revenge. A pagan dystopian paean to chaos, a libertarian manifesto, and a scathing insider's critique of the music industry, this is a book that Robert Anton Wilson might have written if he had known how to play electric guitar. This is a book so metal that even the consonants require umlauts. This is a book that will make you first question the author's sanity, and then the sanity of the society in which you live.

Jasmine, Mitzi, and Sandy are Fatal Lipstick, a three-piece girl-metal band with a million-dollar record contract and less musical talent than the average gangster rapper. They dedicate songs such as "Whoredumb", "Greed is Bad", and "Guts Ripped Out" to the Devil and declare their greatest ambition is to inspire their fans to kill themselves. Their own sound engineer thinks they should be dragged out into the street and shot for their crimes against music. And it falls to Ezron Blenderman, a record producer who puts on his pants one leg at a time and makes hit records, to somehow transform their horrendous incompetence into something that will sell millions of records to unsuspecting teenagers around the world.

But one day, Blenderman catches Jasmine playing the guitar by herself... and begins to discover that the daughter of the Norse God of Chaos has no intention of becoming a manufactured one-hit wonder. Loki's Child is angry, and she intends to set the whole world on fire.

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374 pages
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August 16, 2016
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ASIN ‏ : ‎ B01KKWL40W
Publisher ‏ : ‎ Castalia House (August 16, 2016)
Publication date ‏ : ‎ August 16, 2016
Language ‏ : ‎ English
File size ‏ : ‎ 2911 KB
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Print length ‏ : ‎ 374 pages
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Katrina Redelsheimer

A Berserker Attack on Record Label Posers

Reviewed in the United States on November 20, 2016

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I've been enjoying my recent foray into the indy publishing world, particularly with Castalia House works. Loki's Child was for me an extremely engaging and entertaining read. I'm not a big music person, but I was pleased to be able to recognize the various figures referenced throughout the book. You know it's a good book when you have to keep stopping to read bits of it out-loud to your sadly indifferent significant other. The all-out attack on the fragile mess that is the contemporary music industry is truly a delight to observe.

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Douglas

funny and brilliant at beginning. Seems rushed towards end

Reviewed in the United States on October 25, 2016

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The author has a brilliant imagination and appears to have complete and thorough knowledge of the music industry. It started out very funny. Although the language is coarse, I think it is in character to the reality of the music industry. I admit that I am right wing, so I loved the spoofing and belittling of the liberals. I also like that the author is not afraid of the PC enforcement police.

Now why would I give only three stars. The book seems very rushed from just over the midway point. We jump from the music industry to taking over the whole country by what we now call the "Alternative right". The fun is lost here and it seems only a push by the author to get his main idea across. Although I agree with the idea, the story is not compelling. Maybe it wasn't meant to be compelling considering it started off as a comedy, but that hurt the consistency of the stor. It heavily detracted from the comedy and would have worked better as a separate book of war and conflict.

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Eric L. Norman

one chapter being laugh-out-loud funny, the next being a laugh-so-you-don't-cry acerbic rocket-fist to ...

Reviewed in the United States on September 7, 2016

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At first glance Loki's Child is a bit of an odd duck, a hilarious glimpse into the dark, bizarre world of professional music/sausage making. Blenderman, Scotty and the Fatal Lipstick Girls each get to present their own curious view, alternately extracting grins, chuckles, head-shaking groans and side-clutching laughs. Blenderman makes a living by forcing audiophile Scotty to auto-tune horrifically untalented bands into billboard hits. And then the dark satire takes over the building, locks the doors, and starts decapitating hostages (but only the ones who really, really deserve it)!
The tone and mood of Loki's Child are somewhat chaotic, one chapter being laugh-out-loud funny, the next being a laugh-so-you-don't-cry acerbic rocket-fist to the solar plexus of "liberty" in an oh-so-familiar alternate America. Some readers will get it, some won't, but if Loki isn't allowed to make you laugh even as his dagger plunges, then who is?

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Benjamin

Pretty good, but the first half is WAAAAAAAYYYY better ...

Reviewed in the United States on October 5, 2016

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Pretty good, but the first half is WAAAAAAAYYYY better than the last half. While I appreciate paganism, despite being a Christian, it cannot replace Christianity as being a foundation for a society. Their gods are shown as reviving, but I don't really see it, like we do in, say, Victoria, another Castalia House release. Really, if they had kept the same tone from the first half, they could have said the same thing, but much funnier. Attempting to contest 'Rebuild America' genre books like Victoria just doesn't work without Christianity, or a more developed, less debauched, main cast.

I should say that this book made me laugh out loud during jury duty.

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Good story derailed by political rant

Reviewed in the United States on August 26, 2016

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How much you like Loki's Child depends on how you feel about political rants. The more you like them, the more you'll like this book. In Part 2 and Part 3 the pillow of political ranting slowly suffocates the story, the characters, and the laugh out loud vibe of Part 1. With that disclaimer out of the way, here's the review of the parts of the book which aren't a manifesto.

This book is narrated by characters who love music, yet are forced to destroy it for a paycheck. Blenderman and Scotty work for a hit-producing record company. Hits happen by stripping out any talent the musicians have with SonoViz, the latest and greatest sound producing software. The label's latest hit band is Fatal Lipstick, three girls who can't play their instruments. Blenderman and Scotty post their experiences recording and mixing such gems as "Whoredumb" on a member's only website. Jasmine, of Fatal Lipstick, discovers the website. Angry that she's not even getting a cut of the website's proceeds, tells her side of things. Each character has a unique voice, and this is the laugh out loud funny part of the book.

The world is alternate modern America where SJW ideals reign supreme. Actual crimes are ignored in favor of prosecuting hate speech. In other words, a dystopian hell hole. Descendants of pagan gods, or maybe the amnesiac gods themselves, live out their lives as best they can. The book never completely explains which is is, and it works. There's a forest god who lives in the middle of nowhere making a living as a music producer. At night he fights with the storm god. These ideas are so fertile that any story seed bears fruit.

I'd read another story in this world. Story, mind you, NOT a long winded political rant.
4 stars for the story.

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Sconzey

Douglas Adams as a Gaiman fan's ZFG Heavy Metal Ayn Rand tribute

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on September 1, 2016

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"I read this great book."
"What's it about?"
"Errrrrm...."

Imagine if Douglas Adams was a massive Gaiman fan, and also a ZFG edgelord, and decided to write a story that starts with a black-comic satire of the state of the music industry and ends with the downfall of the government of the United States. Then imagine he threw in enough anarcho-capitalist political polemic to make Ayn Rand blush.

As a right-wing non-audiophile metal fan, I really enjoyed this book, although I would have probably enjoyed it more had I known more about music and the music industry -- I felt as though there were quite a few references and snarky asides which were going over my head.

Like Atlas Shrugged, even if you agree with the author's politics, the polemic does sometimes detract from the story. The author definitely 'tells' the reader when they should 'show': there's a long chapter about halfway through which gives the history of the alternate reality in which the story takes place as just one long piece of exposition. This was a little jarring and could have been done much better by slipping those details into background detail in previous chapters.

Each chapter is written by a different character, but the characters voices are quite similar I often had trouble -- dipping in and out of the book -- working out which character's chapter I was reading. Each chapter is an excerpt from a series of columns on a members-only blog, interspersed with snippets from pop culture in this alternate reality, and I sometimes got the impression that the author found himself constrained by this format. It makes a lot of sense for the first few chapters, but as the story develops you wish for a more conventional narrative structure.

The descriptions of the music and the technology of music-recording, particularly the analog equipment, are lovingly crafted and really draw you into the author's world. Ardath, one of the bands featured in the story, sounds right up my street. The plot, as I said, is fantastic, and after a slow start moves at a fairly fast pace.

I wouldn't recommend this book to anyone who isn't at least sympathetic to a right-wing or libertarian perspective, but if you're a metal fan, or have experience in the music industry, you'll enjoy this book.

Scott Osmond

Piss Take!

Reviewed in Australia on October 17, 2016

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This book skewers everything about the modern world, music, culture, politics and does it with style. I got some good laughs out of the book. The best humour cuts close to the bone this one reaches for the bone scraper! There is simply no way that this book would have been published by a trad house, too many sacred cows were not only kicked but lovingly butchered. Now if only elements of this book weren't likely given current cultural and political trends. I'd like to see more from this author.

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