Review: Children of Ragnarok by Cinda Williams Chima

 

Children of Ragnarok by Cinda Williams Chima
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

Cinda Williams Chima has always been a hard hitter in YA fiction. Her characters are genuinely some of the BEST, well-developed, brilliant, magical fantasy characters I’ve ever read. Her plots and writing are so fantastic hat, even without some of the more New Adult plot points (sex, rape, brutality) that we see in Maas and Armentrout books, she is able to create an epic that is spell-binding.

I was SO excited that to hear that she was starting a new series based on Viking Mythology and was lucky enough to get an ARC from the publisher and NetGalley. In this fantasy YA, perfect for younger students 12-16, we follow two narrators. Reggin and Eiric who are both 16-year-olds who live in an incredibly difficult world AFTER Ragnarok. The Gods have seemingly all disappeared, as has magic, and the isle is starting to feel the effects of it. Farms are failing, people are starving, monsters are roaming the woods – Reggin and Eiric are brought together after a strange twist of fate and then ripped apart immediately after.

Reggin must go on a journey to discover the source of her magic and fight a mysterious isle of wyrdspinners that can suck magic from an individual and still their energy. While Eiric is thrust headfirst into a world of Viking politics as he fights to keep his farm, save his baby brother, and protect his half-sister Liv – all while hunting for the mysterious isle of New Jotunheim.

I loved this first book and I think this is another series that I will read and re-read every time there is a new novel!

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