Valhalla

What can I say, this book doesn't take any brain power to read. In fact, it is so easy to read you can skim the chapters in as fast you would normally skim a page. The beginning few chapters hooked me to the story, but I have a weakness for anything Scandinavian, then the story quickly became gratuitous action with death defying luck, a chase that went on for several chapters and wait for it, a summary in the lasted three chapters. Chapters in this book are 3-5 pages. Needless to say the story is far fetched but for entertaining fun I thought in the beginning it would be a fun Clive Cussler formula book but no, it fails to compare which really said a lot for the poor quality and depths in story and writing. Given I did purchase the book show more at my local grocery store I wasn't expecting a lot. show less

This was an entertaining action/conspiracy novel. I'm not sure why its star rating is so low - it is slightly above average in its genre.

Good points: lots of action, lots of varied scenes, not a lot of repetition or car chases or gun porn, females aren't there just as prizes for the men.

Bad points: character development a little light, underlying conspiracy was a bit of a stretch - possibly even a little moralistic in nature.

I didn't actually know what the story was about when I started it so had some idea that it was a "fantasy" type novel. It is not. There is no fantasy component - it's a straight up action-adventure with a conspiracy as the basis of the action.

I'll read more by this author.