thank you to Netgalley and the publisher for an e-arc in return for an honest review! <3

’Ware the Wolf’

Throughout Shadow of the Gods and Hunger of the Gods, I felt myself disappointed. Whilst I loved all the components of the first and second book in this series, I just didn’t feel myself being drawn into the story like I usually am in Gwynne’s books. It made me sad. Was I the problem? I didn’t think so. Were the books the problem? According to every review ever, that didn’t seem to be the case. So I put it down to my bad mental health, or maybe the off chance that this trilogy just sadly wasn’t for me, despite the high expectations I’d given it.

And then I started Fury of the Gods, and I finally fucking got it.

This book was little more than exceptional. A brutal, awe-inspiring saga of grief, family, vengeance and cheese, that never failed to have me having already fallen off of the edge of my seat. I’ve seen a few people over the past couple of days complain that this had too many battles. To that I say, do you people hate fun? The last thing I was complaining about was the amount of battle sequences this book had, which, for anyone wondering, was a hell of a lot. But when you’re reading a book from one of the most talented battle writers that modern-day fantasy has to offer, I’d take it as a win. Every single conflict that occurred within this instalment was phenomenal. Perfectly gory, detailed and imagined so realistically. I am always blown away by Gwynne’s ability to make me truly feel like I am in the crush of the shield-wall, or life-and-death fray of the holmganga. This book did not have a boring moment, did not have a bad chapter, did not have a lacklustre story beat in sight. It fit together like a puzzle, each plot joining together to reach a climax (not that kind, get your mind out of the gutter) that had me throwing my Kindle across the room. But not literally of course, as it cost me £150 and I’m not made of money.

While I wasn’t ultimately enamoured with every single part of this series, I was with this book which is why it deserves those 5 stars. The Fury of the Gods is a masterclass in just how impactful and complete finales should be. Each characters vengeance was fulfilled in such creative and satisfying ways, and the deaths that did occur absolutely tore my heart in two. The world of Vigrið is one that I know will stick with me, not only due to its Norse-inspired roots and truly sinister and badass Gods, but because of its cast of fantastic characters. Who obviously, I just have to talk about the endings of.

Orka Skullsplitter
Orka is the sort of female character I, as a woman myself, need to see more of in fantasy. One who is not only physically strong, as a fierce and intelligent fighter, but one who is loving and infinitely loyal to those she cares for. Whilst vengeance was the key driving factor for most of her actions throughout the series, it’s how her motherhood is represented throughout this book and its predecessors that stuck with me the most. I think Gwynne just did such a fantastic job at showing how powerful a mother’s love is, and how parents will go to the ends of the earth for their children. Her relationship with not only her son Breca, but also the likes of Lif and Svik, showed just how central maternity and protection were to her story. The figure of the ‘mother-wolf’ is one that is personally love, and I feel that Orka was perfection. Her ending was satisfying and emotional, and I won’t be forgetting her anytime soon.

Varg No-Sense
I have nothing but love for Varg coming to the end of this trilogy. From a naive and often senseless thrall to an intelligent, badass and key member of the Bloodsworn, I was completely absorbed into his story from start to finish. Varg played less of a role in this book as usual, although he sort of always did as a kind of self-insert for the reader, but that didn’t mean his impact and ending weren’t eventful. I was cheering out loud when he got his revenge, and when he started his relationship with someone I will not name for spoiler reasons (but know I was hoping for this since book one)! The overall story of the Bloodsworn and the found-family they brought to this series was by far my favourite part of this book and the past two. With some of my favourite characters Gwynne has ever made, Røkia, Einar and Svik of course being the highlights, I know that I’m going to be wishing I too was part of a ragtag band of mercenaries for the rest of the year. I’m just really going to miss this gaggle of cheese-loving, sex-joke-making idiots for a while.

Elvar Chainbreaker
Hey Elvar, Daenerys Targaryen called and she wants her nickname back! On a serious note, anyone that has been keeping up with my reviews should know by now how much I’ve hated Elvar (and most of her story-beats) throughout this series. Mainly due to her being a remorseless slaver, but also due to her mildly boring plot, Mary-Sue survival skills and general ‘my daddy is rich’ mindset. For half of this book, this rhetoric remained. And then it stopped. And then I liked Elvar. And then something else happened which I once again cannot name for spoiler reasons but oh my fucking god how dare you John Gwynne !! We were just starting to be friends !! After finishing this trilogy I have started to appreciate Elvar’s story for what it was and represented. The prejudice and bigotry of the regular person in this world was the crux for all the events that happened in this story, and Elvar was a product of her surroundings and upbringing. It was good that Gwynne created a character that showed this, and she showed it damn well (too well, at points). She ended up being a character I respected by the end of the story, and one that I think may stick with me for a while longer. My feelings about her will remain being mixed, but I can say she was incredibly well-written and developed. Whilst the Battle-Grim stayed lacklustre for me, and I wasn’t that bothered by any particular character (other than Grend), I can definitely say the ending to this arc had my jaw on the floor.

Biórr Rat-Blood
Biórr, truly a poor man’s Icarus. Destined for greatness, doomed to fail. I found his chapters to be the most uninteresting throughout this book, but of course valuable in their insight into the villains of this story. Biórr is a tragic character indeed, who really was affected by the blood he carries inside him and God he was connected to. I thought his relationship with Rotta was fascinating and incredibly manipulative, so much that I almost felt sorry for him…. but not quite. I think there’s a lot that can be said for his choices throughout his story, the childhood that shaped him and the rhetoric he, much like Elvar, was taught. They were two sides of the same coin in the end, and I think they both did a bit of good and bad that equalled them both out to ‘yeah they were alright’. I think Biórr got the ending he deserved, but not without a level of bitter-sweetness. A very engaging and creative character, he added so much understanding into the machinations at play within the minds of the Gods.

Guthvarr the Coward
Oh Guthvarr, you bumbling fool. The allegorical jester in this nonexistent court, Guthvarr added to this book what could only be described as the most pathetic attempts at heroics I’ve ever seen. Other than giving us the truly underrated character that was Jarl Sígrun, Guthvarr really was just the character we readers would actually be in this situation. A whiney, complaining fool, I never wanted him to die but also wanted him to die at every point throughout his sad existence. Hilarious and totally unnecessary, I couldn’t imagine this series without him. He got what was coming to him, but I’m glad I got to spend it with him for nearly a thousand pages. God bless, you snotty little man. Someone get him a fucking tissue already!!!

Overall, The Fury of the Gods gets 5/5 stars and the Bloodsworn Saga series gets 4.25/5 stars. I will forever be utterly grateful and completely mind-blown that my first ever arc was this, a book I loved, in a series I enjoyed, by one of my favourite authors. Some dreams really do come true.

Not Guthvarr’s though…..

Thank you to Orbit books and Netgalley for providing an ARC, all opinions are my own.

The Fury of Gods brilliantly completes John Gwynne’s Bloodsworn Saga, delivering a gripping and heartfelt conclusion to an unforgettable trilogy. This final instalment was nothing short of sensational, and I’m so grateful to Gwynne for crafting such an immersive, powerful story.

The plot was engaging from start to finish; there wasn’t a single moment when I wasn’t entirely absorbed in the story. What I love so much in this series is it’s incredible character dynamics. Feeling the Bloodsworn's bond from Varg’s perspective- where he gradually discovers his found family- was amazing to see, in comparison to the Varg in the first book. In this book, we see a newfound confidence in him, reflected in his budding romance with Rokia, which finally begins to blossom.

Orka, however, remains the standout character of the trilogy. She’s without a doubt one of the most complex and fascinating characters I’ve encountered. Her relentless determination and strong will to find Breca, even resisting the powerful influence of Ulfrir, showcase her strength and resolve. The lore surrounding her is mindblowing- former leader of the Bloodsworn, with a husband who was one of them- and it would be amazing if Gwynne explored a prequel featuring Breca as the protagonist. I can only imagine what a warrior he would become.

Though Elvar isn’t my favorite character, her development across the series deserves recognition. In The Fury of Gods, we see her finally take charge and make choices that reflect her own sense of fairness. Her growth as a leader and person, is both admirable and satisfying, it was long overdue and I’m so glad it happened in the finale.

This book is packed with betrayal, love, grief, and fury- everything that makes the Bloodsworn Saga such an intense and emotional journey. It’s the most action-packed of the trilogy, and Gwynne manages to bring it all to a spectacular finish. The Fury of Gods is a must read- for anyone seeking a fantasy series that’s raw, visceral, and deeply moving.

I cannot even put into words how good this was! A fantastic final instalment in the series! I felt that the main characters’ storylines were wrapped up nicely with no disappointment that sometimes arises at the ending of a series! The only negative I could say is that I did not want this to end! Even now that it’s finished I still feel like I need to know more!!!
Let’s hope there’s maybe the possibility of revisiting this setting and characters in the future 😊

Looking at the series as a whole it is a really good fantasy series with some great Nordic influence that I found really interesting.
This is a good series if you like blood and gory action but not if you enjoy a more character or plot driven tale.
I have a lot of issues with this final book. As much as the action was thrilling and engaging there was just too many of them. There was so much fighting in this book it became insufferable. The story and characters on the other hand felt very lacking in comparison.
This book is far too black and white, good vs bad. I really wanted some more interesting morality explored that you should expect from an epic fantasy story and there was just none.
The characters themselves I felt did not have enough growth considering this was the culmination of their stories. I always felt like I wanted more from them to be able connect better to them and their stories.
There was also a big feeling of repetition to me. Gwynne seems to have a habit of repeating certain phrases. I felt myself getting frustrated hearing a character say almost exactly the same thing again and again. The also almost constant use of a simile when describing something became really annoying. I never want to have to read "thought cage" again.
Where I think the book fell the most short was the pacing. The pacing in this never felt balanced there would be sections of high tempo and then so much of nothing and then a spike of tempo again.There was too much meandering and chapters that just felt pointless and should have been left on the editing floor. The POV of Gudvarr I think really let the book down. His character is just terribly written and his constant inner monologues so hard to get through. The decision to add his pov to this series still makes no sense to me. The book just really dragged through this middle section which took a lot of enjoyment out of the main story.

Overall this book and series as a whole just did not live up to the hype for me. I feel John Gwynne is a good writer of action but he really needs work on his plots and characters. Both feel lacking and bogged down by repetition and fills in the space where he could be creating more depth.

An absolutely DIVINE ending to an excellent series.

John's writing had me hooked from book 1. His prose is perfection and his world building is incredibly detailed.

What I loved most was the progression of each character - you will truly root for these people and be flying through the chapters to see what happens next. Thank you LBB and Netgalley for the ARC!

I hope to never read the phrase "thought-cage" again. I still don't know why this nonsense is used, when the author happily mentions lungs, tendons, hamstrings etc but no can't possibly use the word "brain".
Anyway, this is the third and final book in the Viking-inspired series of raising dead gods and seeking vengeance. We have the same cast of 5 PoV characters as in book 2, three "good" and two "villains", but most are telling the same story from different PoVs. The Bloodsworn and Battle-grim (I still don't know which is which as they are mostly identical crews of ... people on boats) are now united against the newly risen dragon god, along with their enslaved wolf god and his daughter. And that is literally the whole plot - they travel to the wolf god's ancient home to lay in wait for the dragon god - this takes over half of the book to occur. We also have the feared rumoured fleet of ships from some lord i had completely forgotten about because it doesn't come to anything and is mostly forgotten by the end of the book - it is very annoying to have a threat lurking in the background of the final book in a series that never emerges and just fritters out.
The language of the book was equally as irritating as in previous books - we have several made-up words for warriors or slaves and I never cared enough to go back to the glossary to check which was which and this became another unnecessary annoyance. Also some of the enemy creatures remain undescribed or explained - I still don't know what the skrealings are, whether the spertus are eels or scorpions or what the hell a night-hag is (except that it "flows" - seriously, search for the word hag in the kindle version and all you see is they they flow). And the swearing - one of my bugbe0ars in fantasy is the refusal to use proper swear words and attempt to make some up - here we have "nithing", "arseling" or "goat-humping something" - every single time these are used it takes me right out of the book.
As always with Gwynne's books, we have a massive cast of characters, and as always I only remember a handful of them, because they are all so forgettable and similar. I don't know what it is about his books, but I just don't care about/remember any but a few of the main characters.
And then we have the use of magic - previously runes were used for protecting and warding - carving them into something to protect it or strengthen it, but now all of a sudden people are throwing them at each other - if this were possible, why was it never used in the previous 2 books? And even now it is only used so a magic-wielder of either side cancels each other out, I don't think any advantage is gotten from its use - again this just took me right out of the book.
Most of the book is action scenes, but they all involve the over-use of shield-walls - once you've read one scene involving a shield wall, you've read them all - we have the hacking above or below and the massively overused "hooked the top of the shield with the beard of their axe", which is about as exciting as any shield wall scene ever gets. We have a flurry of more individual battles later in the book as each good character gets to exact their long awaited revenge on the villain that did them wrong - these come such that they give next to no real peril as you know the good will out every time.
The writing was pretty poor here, with odd phrasing here and there ("tremoring"?!) and much over-used descriptions that just grated after a while (Varg letting the wolf filter through his blood in every chapter) and it really didn't feel like a Gwynne book, more one that was padded out by someone trying to meet a word count but not willing to pay an editor. Some passages were so hard to parse that, given this day and age I started to wonder if AI had been used. At times we can see that the author has got a new idea and suddenly everything is a "nasal helm" or a "spectacled helm" out of nowhere. Again, jarring.
I wanted more from the gods but got very little, them fighting in the background while two humans had a fight or two sets of people with shields bumped against each other a bit. We also get no sense of scale, at no point did I know how big the wolf, dragon or rat gods were, let alone the snake god (not a spoiler, he is on the front cover of the book so if anyone dropped this spoiler it was the publisher!) who appears to be massive in his brief pointless appearance. Also, his appearance was, while obvious, by no means explained (raising gods was meant to be pretty hard but he just appeared for plot purposes) and his end even more ridiculous and a pointless waste ("oh no they have a powerful weapon that hasn't been mentioned at all before now, oh thank goodness that tooth fairy took it and we can now forget that ever happened").
In summary I really struggled with this book, the slow pace, the miniscule plot and its pointless diversions, the tedious battle scenes, the language and the infinite cast of forgettable characters. I realise now that I didn't finish the last Gwynne series for similar reasons, and part of me wishes I had just let this one go too. I doubt I will bother with the next one.

What an absolutely incredible end to an incredible series! I marathoned this series and oh my god I loved every single second I was reading this series and I will happily read every single word this author writes. The world building in this series is absolutely top class, the characters are fleshed out and well developed and I am just absolutely in love

There’s a nice summary of the previous books which does a very good job of bringing the reader back up to speed with the events of the previous books before being thrown into the story. I very much appreciated that.

I enjoyed the first two books of the series and this one continues the trend of being excellent. I have always enjoyed Gwynne’s writing, ever since I first read Malice, and The Fury of the Gods is another fantastic book for Gwynne.

His battle scenes are just top notch. They really pull you in and they are excellently written. You can tell he knows his stuff when it comes to Viking-esque battle and they were a true highlight of the series.

I also enjoyed the characters. Sometimes, characters can get lost when there is a lot of emphasis on fighting but I never found this with this awesome group of characters. You really sympathise with all their struggles, and you always want them to succeed. I’m not going to going into plot details since it is the third book in a trilogy but I will say that I was hooked from beginning to end.

Is there anything I don’t like about this book? The frost spiders were a lowlight but I’m saying that as an arachnophobe who wishes that fantasy writers would choose another creepy crawly to use. I don’t like imagining them and every time they were mentioned, it made my skin crawl. Maybe killer wasps next time?

The Fury of the Gods is an excellent final book. It is exciting, it is emotional and I enjoyed reading it a lot. I’ve never been let down by Gwynne and his fantastic storytelling and this book is no exception. Like all of Gwynne’s other works, I highly recommend it, especially if you love epic battles and Viking inspired fantasy.

TLDR: An epic finale to a new all-time favourite series. Full of loyalty and betrayal, love and loss. Gut-wrenching. Perfection.

The last book in the Bloodsworn Saga did not disappoint. I was hooked from the start with non-stop action and stayed hooked right up to the end with the best battle scenes. I loved every moment of this. Even the heartbreaking ones.

There were a tonne of characters to remember but it was all worth it to see how their paths crossed. John Gwynne really knows how to make his characters bring out every emotion in you. Plus, the character arcs in this were chefs kisses.

Despite being a finale, The Fury of the Gods still brought more of the world of Vigrio to life. John Gwynne really has a way with words. He effortlessly put so much into so few words.

Even though this series is very much an epic fantasy, I feel anyone could fall in love with these characters and the Norse-inspired world. Highly recommend picking this one up!

Thank you to Little, Brown Book Group for providing an eARC for review via NetGalley. All opinions are my own.

The Fury of the Gods is the final book of John Gwynne’s Bloodsworn trilogy and i was waiting for the conclusion of this amazing series and i can say finally that the series ends on a banger.

If I were rating and reviewing the book based purely on my enjoyment, this would be an easy 5 stars. but for me, there are so many battles and fights for me to enjoy it completely. For someone who enjoys battles and action scenes, this was more than i can handle. I think this has to be because the author tried to include so many things at the final book. The first two books were perfect but this one needed more threads to close and eventhough these are closed, there are so much to grasp from here.

The Fury of the Gods is the final book of John Gwynne’s Bloodsworn trilogy. I loved the first two books, but this one is definitely more action packed as it brings things to a conclusion.
This involves lots and LOTS of battles - to me this was slightly boring and i ended up skimming. Then the plot would slowly move forward.
Everyone seemed to get some sort of vengeance.
However I still enjoyed being with the characters I had come to care about, and it is worth reading to finish the Trilogy and see how it all ends.
Thanks to Netgalley for the arc!

Omg where do I start! This has me moving through all emotions. The FMCs of this book are amazing as well as MMC but you have to love a strong FMC sorry! The revenge and battles are amazing. It kept me gripped through out. I’ve just binged all three books to get this review out and all I can say is “Read it, you won’t regret”. DO IT!!!

You know you've hit on something special when you fire through a book at a rapid pace but after half way through you slow to a crawl. Whilst you want to finish and find out what happens... you really want to just stay with these people that you have learned to love, hate and commiserate with.

Here we are at the end of the Bloodsworn Trilogy and it has been a journey and a half with blood, tears, laughs and adventure throughout. This has been a fantastic series and felt quite different from the Banished Lands. A brutal and dark world with all sorts of magic, gods, myths and living legends appearing on every page.

The character arcs throughout were satisfying for me. I am a sucker for a revenge tale. My guilty pleasure is an origin story and a training montage. I love to cheer on a villain that pushes the bounds of what is expected and most of all I love any lore with a wolf/wolf pack in it. So one hundred percent the Bloodsworn Trilogy hit all the right notes for me. John Gwynne's writing for characters, descriptions, the sheer brutality of this world, the fast paced action and tying everything up in a neat wee plot bundle was fantastic.

Well done Mr Gwynne. Well done. This will live long in my thought-cage.

Note - This word (thought-cage) has now become a part of everyday use in my house.

Massive thanks to Orbit and NetGalley for the ARC.

The Fury of the Gods is the third and final book of John Gwynne’s Bloodsworn Saga. You’ll need to have read both previous books, and to have read them fairly recently, before embarking on this one. Although there’s a much appreciated cast of characters and a plot recap at the start of the book, given the two-year gap since the previous novel, it took me quite a while to pick up the settle back into the plot and characters.

Your enjoyment of this book will, I suspect, largely depend on how much you enjoy battle scenes in your fantasy reading. As might be expected, perhaps the last fifth of the book is devoted to the climactic battle sequence. There are also many, many battles and skirmishes in the run up to it too, though. This made the book a bit of a repetitive read for me and I found myself skim-reading large portions of the text. The book also seemed longer than its page count would suggest.

All in all a book I didn’t enjoy as much as I expected to, but there’s no doubt it’s a fitting end to the series.

Thank you to NetGalley and the publishers, Orbit, for an ARC in exchange for an honest review.

I dont know where to start. After the ending of the hunger of the gods, I had to see what was going to happen with Orka?! How is this war going to end? Will Varg get vengeance? How is Elvar going to cope with new power?
To be able to achieve what John Gwynne did in just over 500 pages was beyond impressive. I could not have been more satisfied and pleased by an ending to a series. Relationships formed that I had been hoping for, people I didnt like got their well earned comeuppance. It left enough room and hope that maybe we could return to this world and the bloodsworn. A real passionate book from a hugely talented man who you can tell loves what he's writing about. A huge feat

In 2021 The Shadow of the Gods blew my mind. A year later, The Hunger of the Gods expanded the world and surpassed the series’ potential. How does Fury, one of my most anticipated releases of the recent years, compare?

Very admirably, I’m pleased to say. This series has maintained its strengths which for me are the palpable atmosphere, innovative and fresh worldbuilding, breakneck pace and relentless action. I do tend to prefer more quiet, character driven stories nowadays but I know now that should I need an epic fantasy action fix, I should reach for a John Gwynne story.

As it’s been a few years since I’ve read The Hunger, I appreciate Gwynne’s and Orbit’s decision to include a detailed character guide and summary of the plot. It did take me a second to distinguish between the Norse names and terms but the glossary helped me immerse myself in the characters’ narratives again. I loved being back in harsh, cold Vigrid with Orka, Varg, Elvar, the Bloodsworn, and the most wondrous and terrible magical creatures you wouldn’t want to mess with.

The world continues to be brutal and unforgiving; John doesn’t pull any punches and neither do his characters. Limbs and heads fly, teeth are smashed (or torn out and munched on…), skulls are cracked, entrails spill out, throats are ripped and devoured in almost every chapter. The battle rage and physicality of the fights are visceral; just when you think the characters can’t keep going, they push past the breaking point which makes this the most action-packed book I’ve ever read, even more so than The Heroes. I think that this will be in favour or to the detriment of people’s enjoyment depending on the kind of reader they are.

If I were rating and reviewing the book based purely on my enjoyment, this would be an easy 5 stars. I flew through this in less than 2 weeks (which is quick for me nowadays), I liked the well-established characters though their development (with the exception of Elvar and Biórr) took a backseat, and the writing was very gripping and evocative; nonetheless I do have a few bones to pick.

Despite the fact that John Gwynne is clearly one of the best in the business when it comes to verbalising cinematic battles, this book had simply too much of them for my taste – I would say 70% is action, infused with some character development. The last 20% consists of multiple stand offs and character reckoning which would have been more cathartic to read had they been spread out across the book rather than having everyone face off their enemy one after another. I do find it impressive though that Gwynne managed to keep me engaged and orient myself in these scenes; my eyes didn’t glaze over, and I wasn’t lost which I can’t say for some other fantasy books’ action scenes. His personal experience as a Viking reenactor adds a lot of believable detail, such as exhaustion from the weight of the armour, soreness from hoisting a shield up, the consequences of crushed helmets in a shield wall, etc. One of my favourite parts of the book is an incredible (view spoiler) battle halfway through the book which had me inhaling my Kindle pages in anticipation and excitement.

The characters have been well established in the previous 2 books, in Fury they continue in a similar vein – mainly the quest for vengeance. Elvar gets the best arc where themes of acceptance, freedom, leadership and doing the right thing are explored. There is a strong element of found family in this series which shines a beacon of light amidst all the violence and darkness. As the title Fury implies, the gods’ wrath is certainly felt and seen on page, conflicts come to a head and are resolved with weapons, jaws, claws, fists and magic. However, I can't help but feel that the conclusion to the epic Gods saga was a bit too abrupt and almost… unresolved? The scene depicted on the cover is, as has become the tradition with this series, utterly epic and deserving of its gasp inducing illustration but I felt it happened way too late in the story and that character’s appearance wrapped up in a rather anticlimactic manner.

All of this aside, I still really loved the journey this book took me on. I think the fans of the series are bound to appreciate the scale of the conclusion to this wonderfully unique fantasy trilogy which leaves us wanting more. I hope John returns to this immersive world again as its scope offers plenty of opportunities for more stories.

Huge thanks to Orbit and Netgalley for the e-ARC!

Buy The Fury (and Shadow, and Hunger) of the Gods NOW, don’t miss adding that hardcover on the shelf before they’re all gone.

4.5*

By the gods, this was an eventful finale

There’s very little breathing room, it’s one bloody and exciting action scene after the next. If you’re like me who sometimes struggles to follow along with action scenes then not to worry as I had zero issues here. However, how prominent these scenes are in this book could be an issue for some people

Orka is up there as one of my favourite characters from all the book series I’ve read and it’s no different here. Other characters also got some of the spotlight which actually added to this finale massively, especially seeing how much they have developed

It’s rare for a book to give me tingles but the ending of this did. It was one hell of an epic conclusion with some heartfelt moments mixed in and I really hope we get spin-off series

John Gwynne wraps up his epic Norse fantasy of gods and warriors in fine fashion with The Fury of the Gods.
Book three of this brilliant trilogy sees all players brought together on the steps of a mountain lair for an epic battle which pits warring armies against each other and allows numerous scores to be settled in a winner take's all final fight.
Understandably, the final novel is a lot more action-heavy than previous books but there is still plenty of room for the characters to breathe, as Varg, Orka and others seek to finally find the redemption and peace they have been searching for.
It's an excellent end to a fantastic series.

"The final battle for the fate of Vigrid approaches"

Happy Release Day to John Gwynne for The Fury of the Gods, the final installment of the Bloodsworn Saga.

The first two books in the series were 5 Star reads for me and this one couldn;t be an exception. I read an eARC of it thanks to Orbit and to sum up my thoughts in one sentence: I loved it! It was the conclusion that this trilogy and our characteres deserved.

The fury of the Gods is a Norse-inspired epic fantasy set in the fictional lands of Vigrið and if you are looking for a satisfying conclusion to the trilogy you will find it here. The whole trilogy is a story of friendship,found family, loyalty and honour.

From the beginning of the trilogy my favourite characters were Orka and Varg and that didn't stop . I loved them even more now and their character development was perfect.
The author knows how to write epic battles scenes and this book has plenty of them.

What a book

This is a book about family at its core with a build up to a return of the king type battle at the end.

I adored the characters journey, how each of them built especially Elvar. I knew this is where she was going and I wasn’t disappointed with how she got there

I laughed. I cried. I had a blast of a time.

The last chapter got me. I enjoyed the idea that not everything is over for these characters even if I’m not going to be reading about them anymore.

10/10 excellent book