A review by ohnoflora
Bloodtide by Melvin Burgess
4.0
Bloody and intensely compelling. I first read this book when I was 14 and it blew my mind. I don't think I had ever read anything quite so explicitly violent before that point. (Unless you count the Armoured Bear fight in Northern Lights...)
The elements of the original Icelandic saga are so seamlessly interwoven with Burgess's vision of dystopian London, that it is no more surprising that Odin turns up at a banquet than that there are mutants - half animal, half person - roaming around outside the city walls.
The elements of the original Icelandic saga are so seamlessly interwoven with Burgess's vision of dystopian London, that it is no more surprising that Odin turns up at a banquet than that there are mutants - half animal, half person - roaming around outside the city walls.