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The Hunger of the Gods

John Gwynne · Fantasy

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grimdarkrevenge plotquest
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🌶️🌶️🌶️Moderate — some open-door scenes, not the focus

#291 All Time

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Set in a Norse-inspired world, and packed with myth, magic, and vengeance, The Hunger of the Gods is the second novel in John Gwynne's New York Times bestselling Bloodsworn Saga. The story concludes in book three, The Fury of the Gods, available now! "Visceral, heartbreaking, and unputdownable." – Jay Kristoff on The Shadow of the Gods THE DEAD GODS ARE RISING. Lik-Rifa, the dragon god of legend, has been freed from her eternal prison. Now she plots a new age of blood and conquest. As Orka continues the hunt for her missing son, the Bloodsworn sweep south in a desperate race to save one of their own–and Varg takes the first steps on the path of vengeance. Elvar has sworn to fulfill her blood oath and rescue a prisoner from the clutches of Lik-Rifa and her dragonborn followers, but first she must persuade the Battle-Grim to follow her. Yet even the might of the Bloodsworn and Battle-Grim cannot stand alone against a dragon god. Their only hope lies within the mad writings of a chained g

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