Honestly, I did think of deleting my social media for a while due to being triggered seeing so many people receiving The Shadow of the Gods much earlier than I did. I have done the beyond-epic cover reveal-illustrated by Marcus Whinney-to The Shadow of the Gods, and this novel was easily my number one most anticipated book of the year.

I will be the course.”īy this point, does it still come as a shock that I ended up loving this? I’ve read all of Gwynne’s books-twice for The Faithful and the Fallen-and I have absolutely loved them all every book by Gwynne is on my favorites shelf, and this one is no exception. We are swept along in a current not of our own choosing… I will be the current. Reading The Shadow of the Gods is equivalent to witnessing a new brilliant legendary Norse-inspired epic fantasy series in the making. I have a Booktube channel now! Subscribe here: ĪRC provided by the publisher-Orbit-in exchange for an honest review. It is inspired by Norse mythology, Beowulf and Ragnarök. My latest book, The Shadow of the Gods, book 1 of the Bloodsworn Saga, will be published in May 2021. A Time of Courage, book 3 Of Blood and Bone, made the Spiegel Bestseller's List in Germany. Book 1, A Time of Dread, begins 130 years after the events of the first series.

My second series, of Blood and Bone, is set in the Banished Lands, the same world as the first series. The following three books in the series - Valour, Ruin and Wrath, were all shortlisted for the David Gemmell Legend Award for Best Fantasy Novels of 2014, 20, with Wrath winning the 2017 BookNest Awards for Best Traditionally Published Novel. That was a truly wonderful moment, as David Gemmell is a hero of mine and one of the reasons I write.

Malice, my debut novel, was published by Pan Macmillan in 2012 and went on to win the David Gemmell Morningstar Award for Best Fantasy Debut of 2012. I live on the south coast of the UK with my beautiful wife, three sons and my daughter, and an assortment of animals (at the moment three dogs, a horse and a lamb who thinks she's a dog). I'm also a Viking re-enactor and enjoy nothing more than standing in the shield wall with my three sons, who are as passionate about swords and axes as I am (when I'm not stuck in my coat of mail it's harder than it looks). I am the author of epic fantasy series The Faithful and the Fallen, Of Blood and Bone and The Bloodsworn Saga.

The hunger of the gods by john gwynne