Genevieve Gornichec

When a banished witch falls in love with the legendary trickster Loki, she risks the wrath of the gods in this fierce, subversive debut novel that reimagines Norse myth.Angrbodas story begins where most witch tales end: with being burnt. A punishment from Odin for sharing her visions of the future with the wrong people, the fire leaves Angrboda injured and powerless, and she flees into the furthest reaches of a remote forest. There she is found by a man who reveals himself to be the trickster god Loki, and her initial distrust of himand any of his kindgrows reluctantly into a deep and abiding love.Their union produces the most important things in her long life: a trio of peculiar children, each with a secret destiny, whom she is keen to raise at the edge of the world, safely hidden from Odins all-seeing eye. But as Angrboda slowly recovers her prophetic powers, she learns that her blissful lifeand possibly all of existenceis in danger.Angrboda must choose whether shell accept the fate that shes foreseen for her beloved familyor rise to remake it.

Two stepsisters encounter the gods and giants of Norse mythology, as they face their intertwining destinies and an ominous prophecy in this powerful novel from the acclaimed author of The Witchs Heart.Oddny and Gunnhild meet as children, and they could not be more different. Oddny longs for a quiet, peaceful life. Gunnhild, on the other hand, burns for power, secretly longing to harness the magic that flows inside of her, and one day become queen. But after a visiting wise woman makes an ominous prophecy that involves them both, the girls take a blood oath to help each other always.When Oddnys mother is killed and her sister kidnapped by Viking raiders, she finds herself set adrift from the life she imagined. Gunnhild, who fled her home years ago to learn the ways of a witch, is on her way to her exalted destiny. When they find each other again, their bond will be tested in ways they could never had imagined in this rich novel of magic, history, and sworn sisterhood.

Cuando una bruja desterrada se enamora de Loki, el legendario embaucador, se arriesga a sufrir la ira de los dioses en esta novela debut subversiva y conmovedora que reimagina la mitología nórdica. La historia de Angrboda empieza donde acaba la de la mayoria de las brujas: con fuego. Este castigo de Odin por haberse negado a contarle el futuro, la deja herida y sin poderes, por lo que huye a los confines mas lejanos de un bosque remoto. Alli la encontrara un hombre que resulta ser Loki, y el recelo inicial de Angrboda acabara transformandose en un amor profundo y duradero. Su union produce tres hijos inusuales, cada uno con un destino secreto, que Angrboda esta dispuesta a criar en los confines del mundo, escondidos y a salvo del ojo que todo lo ve de Odin. Pero a medida que Angrboda recupera lentamente sus poderes profeticos, descubre que su vida idilica (y probablemente toda la existencia) esta en peligro. Con la ayuda de la feroz cazadora Skadi, con quien comparte un vinculo cada vez mayor, Angrboda debera elegir si aceptar el destino que ha visto para su querida familia o si alzarse y rehacer el futuro. Basada en la historia mas antigua, esta novela forja una historia de amor, perdida y esperanza para los tiempos modernos. Esta fascinante novela se acerca a la mitologia nordica desde una perspectiva completamente nueva; los antiguos villanos se convierten en los nuevos heroes,y las motivaciones de los dioses, los gigantes y las brujas raramente son lo que parecen Gornichec explora las profundidades de lo que estamos dispuestos a hacer por la familia, el sentimiento de pertenencia y por tener un proposito, y traza los limites del amor, la amistad y la venganza. Linnea Hartsuyker, autora de El rey medio ahogado