A review by lesserjoke
Runemarks by Joanne Harris

3.0

This is a fun fantasy adventure story, drawing on Norse mythology but set several centuries after Ragnarok when the gods have largely passed into legend. Still, young Maddy Smith dreams of them, and she seems to have inherited some measure of their magic. Of course, it turns out the gods are not as dead as her people believe, and before long the girl is caught up in their schemes as they try to navigate a changing world. Maddy herself gets a little lost in the shuffle as the action reaches its climax, and I don't think a reader unfamiliar with these myths would enjoy the book as much, but it's all still pretty charming.