About This Book
Angrboda has been burned, her power stripped away, her body broken — and yet she survives. Cast out by Odin for refusing to surrender her knowledge of fate, she retreats to the edge of the world, where she rebuilds a quiet life in the iron wood. But the gods are not done with her. When Loki finds her there, what begins as wariness deepens into something neither of them planned, and together they raise three children whose destinies she cannot outrun. This is Norse mythology told from the margins — the story of a woman written out of the sagas, reclaimed on her own terms.
Gornichec writes with a stillness that suits the material: long winters, slow seasons, love that accumulates quietly before it breaks open. The prose resists spectacle even when the plot demands it, which gives the emotional moments unusual weight. The novel's structure mirrors its themes — fate closing in on a woman who sees it coming but refuses to look away. It's the kind of book that rewards patience, the type where the ending reframes everything that came before it.