Cover Image: Thor: Daughter of Asgard

Thor: Daughter of Asgard

Pub Date:   |   Archive Date:

Member Reviews

Thank you to Netgalley and Bold Strokes Books, Inc. for the opportunity to read and review this book. This book has a fantastic concept with adult relationships and inclusion with an addition of Norse Mythology that is very fun although unbelievable at times (fictional story so I don't knock it). The characters are also quite a bit of fun and colorful but also realistic with their professional lives which is something that doesn't tend to happen in paranormal romances that I liked in this.
think my only issues with it though was the plot and the writing style. I like the concept and everything that was presented to the reader, however there's a lot more telling than showing plus the order of events were either too slow at points or too fast at points with no set speed. I also wasn't sure on the perspectives on what was happening at times, although it was a entertaining time nonetheless. Because of these points, I have to give this a 3.5 out of 5 stars. I am truly intrigued to see what happens next.

Was this review helpful?

Thor: Daughter of Asgard by Genevieve McCluer
Publisher: Bold Strokes Books, Inc.
Genre: LGBTQIA | Romance
Release Date: January 12, 2021

Thor: Daughter of Asgard by Genevieve McCluer is an interesting take on the Thor mythology.

I found the premise of the story really interesting, the execution left me wanting more. I thought this was humorous and interesting. It definitely makes you stop and think "what if I were reincarnated as a 20-something"...especially if I was a God.

This is a quick read and will keep you entertained.

I'm so grateful to Genevieve McCluer, Bold Strokes Books, Inc. and NetGalley for providing me with a free copy of this ARC ebook in exchange for my honest review.

Was this review helpful?

Very fun, gender-swapped Thor reincarnation story.

Hannah Olsen is a normal college kid - a week from graduation, with an internship lined up. She loves accounting, drinking and hanging out with her sorority sisters. Then things start to get crazy. She falls hard-and-fast for the bartender at her birthday party, and they move in together a week later; then two very large men in Norse warrior gear start showing up at random places calling her Father. Suddenly, Hannah is faced with the undeniable truth; she is Thor reincarnated, and her future may not be her own to decide.

**I received this book from the publisher via NetGalley in exchange for an honest review.**

Was this review helpful?

Another favorite by a great author. The plot of the story was very well written. The author really draws the reader in as you read.

Was this review helpful?

I unfortunately did not click with this book. It had a good premise and potential to be great but just falls so disappointingly flat . It hurts knowing that with just a little more building this could’ve been great.

Plot wise- everything happened too fast and I already knew this was going to be an issue because more often than not books based on mythologies tend to be good with length since the story takes time to build and actually explore it’s different aspects. This story did not deliver when it came to actually going into the mythology.

The characters were all carbon copies of each other personality/ humor/ thinking wise though I still found myself liking Emily and Hannah as a couple but mostly because of their interactions.

Could’ve been so much better without just a bit more depth.

I don’t recommend- maybe in a couple years and with individual growth the author could revisit this story and make it as good as it should be! I’ll keep my eye out for this author though because again this had really good potential and I hope that the author learns and grows in terms of writing to continue producing good plots

ARC by NetGalley in exchanged for an honest review

Was this review helpful?

The story seems very rushed in the beginning, and there is very little conflict. The two women just seem to fall together, and I get the predestined thing but it just seems to simple. As rushed as the writing seem the story feels like it is moving slowly or just going no where. I wanted to like this book, it sounded great but sadly the story felt disjointed and never really grabbed my attention.

Was this review helpful?

I couldn't finish this, even knowing I received an ARC and needed to write a review.

The characters are so ridiculous. The drinking, there is just way too much drinking. Hannah and Emily moving in together after a week even as reincarnated soul mates is ridiculous. I didn't feel any chemistry between them.

I thought this book would be for me, but it fell flat.

Was this review helpful?

I really tried to enjoy this but unfortunately I felt that the characters could have been more developed. Here you have hannah who wants be nothing more than an accountant. While celebrating her birthday at a bar she meets a bartender named Emily with beautiful golden hair. After having a date spending one night together they were planning to move in together. Too unrealistic. I just couldn't connect. I would recommend regardless because I'm sure other readers might be able to. 3 stars


I received an ARC from the publisher Bold Strokes Books Inc via NetGalley for my honest opinion.

Was this review helpful?

Thank you to Netgalley and the publisher for the arc of this book.

About to graduate from college, Hannah is interested in nothing more than an accounting job, time to party, and possibly a cute girlfriend. But then she meets Emily, they fall for each other suspiciously quickly, and they discover truths about themselves they never thought possible.

Things I enjoyed about this book: the queer diversity, the premise of Norse gods being reincarnated, the adventures

I thought the pacing left a bit to be desired, and there were some points when my suspension of disbelief was snapped. I also felt the writing was clunky in places and that most of the story was carried through dialogue instead of action.

My biggest complaint is that I really don't think this hit the mark it was going for with diversity. I can tell it was trying, but there were moments that were super awkward and cringeworthy with it.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Alcoholism, Sexual content, and Violence

Moderate: Death

Dysmorphia, misused pronouns

Was this review helpful?

I did not like this. And I think another reviewer sums it up best for me: I do not think that Mcluer's writing is for me. I picked this one up because of the whole Percy Jackson vibe it seemed to have going for it. I love the, "what if ancient gods, but in modern times" trope and it kind of does it here, but there is a bit of a twist that really took me out of the story.

Here you have Hannah and Emily, two women who start a whirlwind romance that has them not really questioning why they feel so attached to the other, until two strangers show up in a bar telling them that Hannah is Thor and Emily is the lady Sif. On top of that, Alys, Emily's nonbinary friend basically tells the couple that they are Loki, the god of mischief. From there stuff gets weird.

I want to say that they were trying to go for a lighter comedy, but the jokes that are here don't seem to work. There's a running bit about Emily being Sif, who is a goddess of many things, but Emily's powers seem to only manifest as her being exceptionally beautiful and having silky hair. Contrast that to Hannah, who's Thor powers manifest mostly as super strength and the ability to knock back tons of beer. These are very shallow, and it lost my interest very quickly, especially since it seems to happen every other scene.

I'd say that this is a book that works if you want to turn your brain off and just read about twenty-somethings behaving badly while stumbling into a plot to destroy the world.

Was this review helpful?

I found this book to be disappointing. The general premise of the story had so much potential, but I found myself being just interested enough to finish it- and the ending just really fell flat. Maybe the author intended to set it up for a sequel, but even so the ending lacked the fast pace intrigue I associate with action scenes. Also, I felt like the entire plot of the characters being norse gods was just the background to evolve this polyamorous relationship between Hannah and Emily and Alys.

Was this review helpful?

really, really hate to give a poor review, especially to a novel that seems so perfectly geared towards my tastes, but sometimes I find myself completely disappointed and a bad review is inevitable. Thor: Daughter of Asgard should have been an easy like for me. I like cute dorky lesbians. I like Norse mythology. I love urban fantasy. But, try as I might, I couldn’t find much to like.

Thor features two ladies who have just found out that they are, in fact, the reincarnations of Thor and Sif and Alys, the Loki that loves them. Unfortunately, Hannah (Thor) and Emily (Sif), despite falling into bed and immediately moving in together almost as soon as they meet, have little to no chemistry. Both have more chemistry with the non-binary Alys, though that may have to do with the fact that Alys is the only one of the three with any real personality.

The author attempts to lampshade stereotypes with multiple jokes about U-haul lesbians while also perpetuating those stereotypes and others. There are more than three mentions of Hannah bench-pressing a semi. There are other metaphors for superstrength out there, it is not necessary to keep pulling out the same one. Ditto for bad dad jokes every time anyone mentions eating.

Thor starts out as a Rule 63 Norse Mythology Fanfic, and a fairly boring one at that, until more than halfway through the novel, when Hel’s evil plot starts to come to the forefront and the pacing actually begins to quicken. Things actually start to happen, and the slight amount of interest that managed to drum up is the only reason that this book isn’t receiving one star. The plot, when it finally showed up, was a pretty decent one, and I would have liked to have seen it (and more conflict) earlier on so that it didn’t feel like such a slog to get there.

I wanted to like this book, but there was just not enough there there. A little more developed main characters, and a little more developed relationship between Hannah and Emily, and maybe it would have felt more like a story I wanted to stick with long enough for the plot to get rolling.

Was this review helpful?

This book has a good idea and I think with a little more story building and editing it could be a good book. I think it's not ready. I wanted to love it. But the writing was too choppy and kept pulling me out. I wouldn't recommend this book in its current state.

Was this review helpful?

I enjoyed this book. I'll start off by saying that. I'm a Norse pagan and I think I chuckled through this quite a bit.

Hannah, the titular character, really just wants to be a plain old boring accountant. Something normal and every day. Unfortunately life doesn't exactly give her that chance. The book is basically her trying to sort out how much of her life is predestined and how much is on her own terms.

Emily, Hannah's girlfriend, also gets some news in that she's also a Norse deity and finds that her's isn't as interesting as Thor, and has to deal with whether or not that's something she can handle.

My favorite character of the main trio is Alys. They're the group's information source and general nerd. They also seem the character to do a lot of growth in the story.

There is a lot of drinking and eating but given what I feel the influence is from these - the Eddas - that's pretty normal. I did enjoy the debates about BBQ having lived in Texas.

The author's style is a very dry sense of humor something I enjoy but others might not. I feel with some of the reveals towards the end of the story there could be more from this and I hope there is.

Was this review helpful?

I really tried to enjoy this book. But i really couldn’t. The writing is disjointed, the storyline has gaps. I usually strive to leave longer and more detailed reviews but I wouldn’t recommend this read to a friend. The concept and execution were disappointing.

Was this review helpful?

I really wanted to like Thor: Daughter of Asgard by Genevieve McCluer. I really did. The blurb sounded very interesting and the cover caught my eye as well. Unfortunately, the book itself did not live up to my expectations.

The premise of the story is really good. The idea of Thor being reincarnated and coming back in the present as a young lesbian college graduate focusing on accounting is unique. The thought of mixing our present with the Norse mythological realm is intriguing. On paper (or e-book format) though, it didn’t work out.

The biggest problem I had was with the characters themselves. They had no depth. They were unrealistic caricatures of today’s twenty-somethings. I couldn’t connect with them at all. I honestly didn’t even like them. The drinking bothered me as well. I know that Hannah being able to drink forever without getting drunk was supposed to be an indication that she was Thor since he could drink anyone under the table in the myths. All I could think of as I read this, though, was that these poor kids were going to be dead before they were thirty from liver disease. It might have been wiser to choose something else to help identify Hannah as Thor. Overall, there were just too many aspects of this tale that didn’t translate well from the idea stage to the written word.
While I can’t say that I enjoyed this story, it might appeal to a younger reader, maybe someone closer in age to the characters. It just didn’t work for me.

I received an ARC from NetGalley and Bold Strokes Books for an honest review.

Rainbow Reflections: http://rainbowreflections.home.blog/

Was this review helpful?

Not the book for me, perhaps because of the expectations I had going in. I expected a lot of action and intrigue, but the story was very slow to kick off. I found I couldn't deal with the characters. I found them a little whiney. Perhaps that is too harsh of me. I'm sure this book will find its readers.

Was this review helpful?

I had high hopes for this book. I wanted to like this book, to really love it.
The premise held a lot of promise, so unique, how could I not get excited about it?

But.

I kept waiting to find something I could connect to the main character with. Never happened.
She "developed" into an over-eating, angry heavy drinker that had more issues than redeemable traits. She wasn't suspicious when circumstances called for it, too trusting, flat and very, very annoying. Actually, that applies to all the characters. The most memorable was the Loki incarnation and I even wanted to smack them.

I hate giving less than glowing reviews, and even in books I didn't love, I can usually find something positive to say about something. But here the best thing I can say about this book is that it had a wonderful premise and lots of potential.
Too bad neither of those panned out.

My apologies to the author and publisher.

Was this review helpful?

I received an ARC copy of this book from the Publisher via Netgalley and voluntarily leaving my review.

It’s ok read.

Hannah is about graduate all she wants is accounting job and settle in her life. Hannah is quirky she starts dating Emily who is a bartender that she met at her party her best friends are Megan and April.

Hannah life is going ok until she learns she reincarnation of Thor and she thrown into a mystery that she needs to unravel before evil has it’s way.

I like the concept of this story because I always wonder do we get reincarnation after we pass and will we follow the same path that our previous life had led or will you go a different direction. I like this author I enjoy the other books the author written but this I like the characters but the story kinda fell flat to me. There poly relationship happening I didn’t mind it but I wish it had more angst. It had too much drinking in this that I was wondering if Hannah and company will have able save anything.

Was this review helpful?

Let me start by saying I really, really didn't want to write a negative review. I really wanted to like this book, but I just couldn't, I have no idea how I even managed to finish it.

A couple of lesbians turn out to be the reincarnation of Norse gods. There is insta-love, horrible behaviour, lots and lots of drinking and eating, polyamory and no storyline to entertain me. I wanted to like this so badly because come on, Thor DAUGHTER of Asgard, but the writing, the characters, the story, it was all just not for me.
The excuses that are used for the bad behaviour annoyed me from the get-go. Also, how can you believe two weird-looking dudes when they come up to you in public to tell you you are their father (and you are a woman) and a Norse god. Every character in this book is just so flat and the character development (which is a very nice way of putting it) adds nothing to the story. The poly storyline, I hated it, adds nothing to the story, especially because there is no angst with it, that should maybe have been there.
It's perfectly fine to spin a story about Nore gods and have it be all "sci-fi" but I have no clue what this book is, it just wasn't enjoyable for me.

I'm beginning to think books by this author aren't for me. Again, I am sorry to be writing such a negative review, but there was really nothing positive in it for me.

Was this review helpful?