I Bring the Fire Parts I II III In the Balance A Loki Series eBook C Gockel
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Sometimes the hero is the wrong guy at the right time.
When Amy Lewis prays for a savior, Loki Norse God of Mischief and Chaos isn’t who she has in mind. Loki can’t resist Amy’s summons, but he can insist she help him outwit Odin, ruler of the Nine Realms. Can Amy trust a so-called God of Mischief? With a powerful evil calling him from beneath the city's streets, can Loki even trust himself?
This box set contains the first three installments of I Bring the Fire plus In the Balance. It is perfect for fans of The Dresden Files, American Gods, and Terry Pratchett.
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Wolves I Bring the Fire Part I
In the middle of America, Amy Lewis is on her way to her grandma's house. She's being chased by a very bad wolf. Galaxies away Loki is waking up in a prison cell, strangely without a hangover, and with no idea what he's done wrong -- this time anyway. But he does know Thor is hiding something, Odin is up to something wicked, and there seems to be something he's forgotten...
In this urban fantasy tale a nice midwestern girl and a jaded, mischievous Loki must join forces to outwit gods, elves, magic sniffing cats, and nosy neighbors. If Loki can remember exactly what he's forgotten and Amy can convince him not to be too distracted by Earthly gadgets, Earthly pleasures, or three day benders, they just might pull it off...
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Monsters I Bring the Fire Part II
After being attacked by a serial killer, saved by Loki — so-called God of Mischief, Lies and Chaos — dragged to Alfheim, losing every cent in her bank account, and caring for her grandmother, Amy Lewis has lost her scholarship to veterinary school. But it’s alright. She has a plan. If she manages to keep her day job as a receptionist, and her night job as a vet tech, she may be able to get her scholarship reinstated and save enough money for the dreaded ‘miscellaneous fees.’
Too bad her day boss is unbearable...
Agent Steve Rogers has political aspirations, but when a suitcase nuke turns out to be something much worse and so-called Norse gods start showing up in his life, he has a priority shift.
Meanwhile, Loki’s priorities and plans haven’t changed at all. He wants Asgard to burn. Of course, earthly pleasures can be so distracting.
These three disparate characters have little in common, but they’ll have to join forces to save earth from trolls, wyrms, frost giant invasions, and an old evil growing beneath Chicago’s streets.
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Chaos I Bring the Fire Part III
In this final installment of the Cera story arc, the noose around Loki’s neck is tightening. Gerðr, the frost giantess, wants him dead; Cera, the World Seed, wants his head—literally and figuratively; the FBI wants him in Guantanamo; and an old friend from Asgard wants to bring him home...whether Loki likes it or not.
Things can’t get any worse, but when Loki’s involved, it’s certain they will. In the third chapter of I Bring the Fire, humanity’s demons are unleashed on the Nine Realms and Amy Lewis and Steve Rogers get front row seats.
Chaos might be their only hope.
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In the Balance An I Bring the Fire Novella
Chaos can never really be destroyed ...
Loki, God of Chaos, gave Amy Lewis all his memories, and one request before he saved the universe. “Remember for me.”
Amy knows Loki will find her, one way or another ... eventually. But as the weeks have ticked by she’s lost hope.
Called into the FBI headquarters to identify a magical artifact, she gets the opportunity to find Loki for herself. In doing so, she tips the scales of not one, but two universes, and has to choose for herself what form she wants Chaos to take.
The fate of the Nine Realms is in the balance, and this time it is in Amy’s hands.
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I Bring the Fire Parts I II III In the Balance A Loki Series eBook C Gockel
I bought this boxed set because I'd come across C. Gockel in a short story anthology and liked the writing and the world.I've never reviewed a boxed set before. As I just finished the first part, Wolves: I Bring the Fire Part I, I thought I should jot down my thoughts as I go. The first installment in this series definitely is an installment. Veterinarian student Amy Lewis encounters the Aesir Loki, on Midguard/Earth to find information related to saving his sons by Sigyn from the void where Odin sent them in punishment for their democratic politics.
That's alot, isn't it? A strength of this series is that there is a well-crafted world here, where Gockel has taken Norse myths and given them her own tweak. It's particularly cool how Amy and the other humans are constantly comparing Loki to comics-Loki and movie-Loki, etc.
But as I said, this is an installment. There's a lot of learning about some of Loki backstory, a fun jaunt to visit an elf queen with Amy's grandmother, Beatrice, who I adore and am sad is not featured in the second book. And there's a nascent romance between Amy and Loki. This is probably the strangest paranormal romance dance I've ever read-- we keep getting glimpses of Loki's prior loves (Anganboda and Sigyn) and nary a kiss for quite a long time. (In fact this is quite chaste...all the major stuff happens off camera and Loki mostly kisses Amy's hand, knuckles or forehead for the first two books)
And then the book ends. Loki's sons' situation is not resolved. Loki's time on Midgard is not resolved. The romance is not resolved. Amy's fate is left as a cliffhanger. Let me just say I'm glad I got this as a boxed set because if I had bought this as a standalone novel it might have run up against my pet peeve of purposeful, obvious cliffhangers that end a novel without anything at all resolved.
And also its written in the present tense. This might not bother you at all, but it kept tripping my writer-brain awareness which was annoying, but not a deal breaker. My own personal taste for fantasy/UF/Paranormal is not present tense.
The second book veers away from Amy. We get the introduction of Agent Steve Rogers who is part of ADUO, the gov't organization trying to deal with more and more World gates opening in Chicago letting in monsters like wyrms and trolls. We get alot of Loki backstory, and a continuing, teasing dance between Loki and Amy while Amy becomes less an actor in the story and more of a sidekick.
In the third book, Amy almost completely fades away. It's Loki and his quest to control Cera, this sentient powerful magic thingy coupled with bursts of Agent Roger and various other military and police handling monsters. This is still interesting and fun in an action way (plastic explosive laced goat meat!) but I missed Amy. I missed her as an active part of the narrative rather than just a repository for Loki's feelings and Rogers' worry.
The final little short story/novelette at the end of this Box Set (In the Balance) actually brought back Amy to the forefront of the narrative-- which made me like the entire box set more. It also lets her experience "other" Lokis in a multi-world/parallel reality kind of way that was interesting.
The end was abrupt again (this is apparently a thing in this series) and set up more story to come. while I enjoyed this box set, I think I might be done with this series. This is a matter of personal taste, however. I like emotional character arcs that.....end. I like relationships with some sort of closure. There are series that go on and on that I love, but I feel like each novel in those series is a complete story, where this Box set reads more like one really long, marathon novel that got chopped into three pieces. I did read the stand alone (same world) Soul Marked book by this author set in a world after Loki brings on Ragnarok to Chicago and enjoyed it more. Possibly because its a full story in one novel with a conclusion both to the "story problem" and also the main relationship.
Like I said, a matter of taste.
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I Bring the Fire Parts I II III In the Balance A Loki Series eBook C Gockel Reviews
I absolutely loved this whole series. The characters jump off the page, and the writer has made Loki in particular into a deeper character than I ever imagined the mythological god could be. None of the characters are simple and easy to predict. I was never bored, and couldn't put the books down - even to the point of staying up half the night a few times. I can't wait to see what G. Cockel comes up with next!
I really wanted to give this less than 5 because I got so mad at the end of book three that I just about threw my phone across the room. I will also not be reading the rest of the series for the same reason.
HOWEVER, I am still going to give this book 5 stars for a number of reasons.
1. I was hooked through all 3 books. This never happens to me. The pace was good and kept me engaged an honestly I was not expecting how things would turn out.
2. I loved the characters. They are not perfect and that just made them so much more fun and funny. Pretty much every character feels authentic to the myths and legends, but also has unexpected depth that the author has managed to bring forward in a very natural way. Really, the blend of the myths and backstories to the present character is very well done.
3. I really enjoyed the author's sense of humor, the little scenes that were just for fun, I especially liked antics with the main character and her grandma, they were just too funny. There were a lot of nice touches like that.
Things I did not enjoy lengthy flashback scenes. These are relevant to the story, I just find them to be distracting when they go on for a long time and there were quite a few.
Anyway I really think it is worth a read and I probably will read the rest of the series eventually. If you like stories about legendary characters with very human elements clashing with modern society, give it a try, I don't think you will be disappointed.
I love, love, love this series! I just bought the 4th book and I can't wait to read it. It is one of those series that you just can't put down. The characters are well developed and the books are really well written (although it was a little hard to get used to the use of third person present tense). I am a huge history buff and I especially like mythology. I don't know too much about Norse mythology, but, since I started reading this series, I have spent a lot more time looking it up. The author does a great job of taking the traditional myths and putting a spin on them. She clearly did her research! I really love how she depicts Loki. He is supposed to be the "good guy" but he still does some questionable things (after all, he is the "god of mischief"). I also really like how she developed Amy. She kept Amy believable - she is just a regular human that got caught up in crazy situation and does not have any "special powers". In fact, it is her lack of special powers that makes her such an impactful character to Loki, who is obsessed with power. This is a great series for fantasy lovers, Harry Potter and Marvel fans, and mythology nerds. I will definitely be recommending this book to my friends and family!
The plot is interesting and fast paced, the world building is original and smart, and characters have enough backstory to them to be interesting. And all that is for nothing because third person present tense narrative reads robotic and makes it very hard to actually care about anyone or anything that is happening. It doesn't read like a book but rather like stage directions of a screenplay. Cold and impersonal, even when the plot should typically invoke strong emotions. I really want to know what happens next story-wise, but even so I simply can't push myself to read past the first third of this bundle, and I think that's saying something. Maybe one day a movie will be made out of it, where actors can flesh out emotions and the human-factor on this screenplay and then perhaps I will find out how the story ends. Until then, I'm putting this book down unfinished.
I bought this boxed set because I'd come across C. Gockel in a short story anthology and liked the writing and the world.
I've never reviewed a boxed set before. As I just finished the first part, Wolves I Bring the Fire Part I, I thought I should jot down my thoughts as I go. The first installment in this series definitely is an installment. Veterinarian student Amy Lewis encounters the Aesir Loki, on Midguard/Earth to find information related to saving his sons by Sigyn from the void where Odin sent them in punishment for their democratic politics.
That's alot, isn't it? A strength of this series is that there is a well-crafted world here, where Gockel has taken Norse myths and given them her own tweak. It's particularly cool how Amy and the other humans are constantly comparing Loki to comics-Loki and movie-Loki, etc.
But as I said, this is an installment. There's a lot of learning about some of Loki backstory, a fun jaunt to visit an elf queen with Amy's grandmother, Beatrice, who I adore and am sad is not featured in the second book. And there's a nascent romance between Amy and Loki. This is probably the strangest paranormal romance dance I've ever read-- we keep getting glimpses of Loki's prior loves (Anganboda and Sigyn) and nary a kiss for quite a long time. (In fact this is quite chaste...all the major stuff happens off camera and Loki mostly kisses Amy's hand, knuckles or forehead for the first two books)
And then the book ends. Loki's sons' situation is not resolved. Loki's time on Midgard is not resolved. The romance is not resolved. Amy's fate is left as a cliffhanger. Let me just say I'm glad I got this as a boxed set because if I had bought this as a standalone novel it might have run up against my pet peeve of purposeful, obvious cliffhangers that end a novel without anything at all resolved.
And also its written in the present tense. This might not bother you at all, but it kept tripping my writer-brain awareness which was annoying, but not a deal breaker. My own personal taste for fantasy/UF/Paranormal is not present tense.
The second book veers away from Amy. We get the introduction of Agent Steve Rogers who is part of ADUO, the gov't organization trying to deal with more and more World gates opening in Chicago letting in monsters like wyrms and trolls. We get alot of Loki backstory, and a continuing, teasing dance between Loki and Amy while Amy becomes less an actor in the story and more of a sidekick.
In the third book, Amy almost completely fades away. It's Loki and his quest to control Cera, this sentient powerful magic thingy coupled with bursts of Agent Roger and various other military and police handling monsters. This is still interesting and fun in an action way (plastic explosive laced goat meat!) but I missed Amy. I missed her as an active part of the narrative rather than just a repository for Loki's feelings and Rogers' worry.
The final little short story/novelette at the end of this Box Set (In the Balance) actually brought back Amy to the forefront of the narrative-- which made me like the entire box set more. It also lets her experience "other" Lokis in a multi-world/parallel reality kind of way that was interesting.
The end was abrupt again (this is apparently a thing in this series) and set up more story to come. while I enjoyed this box set, I think I might be done with this series. This is a matter of personal taste, however. I like emotional character arcs that.....end. I like relationships with some sort of closure. There are series that go on and on that I love, but I feel like each novel in those series is a complete story, where this Box set reads more like one really long, marathon novel that got chopped into three pieces. I did read the stand alone (same world) Soul Marked book by this author set in a world after Loki brings on Ragnarok to Chicago and enjoyed it more. Possibly because its a full story in one novel with a conclusion both to the "story problem" and also the main relationship.
Like I said, a matter of taste.
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