I had the pleasure of having lunch with Bjørn not too long ago as we live in the same city and he told me about Land. I haven’t read Children because it’s a grimdark story and I don’t handle those very well at the moment, but he made me want to read it by telling me about the sequel. He is as much a storyteller in real life as he is on the page. Without giving you any spoilers, I know this book will affect people in so many ways. It’ll hold you in a grasp for a long time after you closed the book.
If you’re interested in Norse mythology, you can’t do wrong by picking up this series. Get Children now, so you’re all caught up for the release of Land on November 5th!
Land
Release Date: 5 November 2024
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Blurb
Loss. Love. Land. Happy Never After.
The truth Maya fought for all her life turns out to be a lie a thousand years long. She neither understands nor knows how to wield her hidden power, simultaneously endless and limited, forcing her to face responsibility for the harm she causes and parry countless questions she has no answers to. Neither time nor space can stop her – but can she stop herself?
Bound with an unbreakable love spell, Magni and Thorolf, both raised in darkness and pain, only share one thing: the fear of revealing their truths. One was born to be a God; the other only knows a slave’s life. One craves peace and quiet; the other believes peace is a brief reprieve between wars. As they mourn those they have lost, the constant war of their own threatens to destroy all they have left – each other.
Haunted by Gods old and new, in the shadow of Odin’s raven, they head to conquer the new Ásgard. Apart from their demons, nothing and nobody is what it seems. Unwilling to give up love, freedom, or land they’re fated to live happily never after… unless destiny can be altered after all?
The book includes strong language, depictions of sexual, physical, and emotional violence. Full list of triggers, which may contain minor spoilers, will be provided here.
About the Author
Bjørn Larssen is an award-winning author of historical fiction and fantasy, dark and funny in varying proportions. His writing has been described as ‘dark,’ ‘literary,’ ‘cinematic,’ ‘hilarious,’ and ‘there were points where I was almost having to read through a small gap between my fingers.’
His debut novel, Storytellers, won a Readers’ Favorite Gold Medal (Best Historical Fiction Novel) and was shortlisted for Eric Hoffer Grand Prize Award. His fantasy works, Children and Why Odin Drinks have been shortlisted for eleven (11) Indie Ink Awards – so far; Children was also nominated for a Stabby Award (Best Indie Novel of 2020). Bjørn is a Queer Indie Award laureate (best speculative fiction author) and very proud of it.
Bjørn has a Master of Science degree in mathematics, and has previously worked as a graphic designer, a model, a bartender, and a blacksmith (not all at the same time). He currently lives with his husband in Almere, which is unfortunately located in The Netherlands, rather than Iceland.
He has only met an elf once. So far.
His upcoming release, the second book in The Ten Worlds cycle – Land – is coming out on November 5, 2024.
