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Runelight

By: Joanne M Harris
Narrated by: Rosie Jones
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Summary

The next gripping tale of magic, adventure and Norse mythology from the Sunday Times best-selling author of Chocolat and The Gospel of Loki.

The squabbling Norse gods and goddesses of Runemarks are back! And there's a feisty new heroine on the scene: Maggie, a girl the same age as Maddy but brought up a world apart - literally in World's End, the focus of the Order in which Maddy was raised. Now the Order is destroyed, and Chaos is filling the vacuum left behind...and is breaching the everyday world.

Six hundred miles apart, two girls both bear on their skin a runemark: a symbol of the Old Days when the known Worlds were ruled by the gods from their sky citadel, Asgard. Now Asgard lies in ruins, and the power of the gods has long since been destroyed. Or so everyone thinks. But nothing is lost forever, and the gods haven't given up yet (nor stopped squabbling!), and they want the power of the runes borne by Maddy and Maggie - these new runes, which carry huge potential, their runelight shining out as a portent to the future. Soon both girls are swept into a maelstrom of cataclysmic events that are to draw them closer and closer to each other and nearer and nearer to a horrific struggle where each must prove where her loyalty lies....

Filled with inventive and humorous detail, trickery and treachery, carnage and lunacy, Runelight is the second title - following Runemarks - in a series of gloriously imaginative and dramatic tales about the Norse gods.

Read by Rosie Jones.

©2011 Frogspawn Limited (P)2017 Orion Publishing Group Ltd
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Glorious

What an amazing journey through the worlds.
Such intriguing characters. The colour shines through in perfect descriptions. I felt as though I was there with them. Perfect lockdown escapism .

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A glorious fantasy romp

I have so enjoyed this romp through the worlds as imagined by Joanna Harris. I find her writing engaging and well paced. Rosie Jones’ performance was superb with excellent narration throughout. I’m off to download the next episode now and I can’t wait to hear it unfold.

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Such a good book!

Such a adventure story this book is a bit different to runemarks it has got a bit of romance which makes it that bit more interesting. Brilliant story with lots of amazing words I so wish I had a strong glam like Maddie and maggie . Again such a great story really to understand
Joanne should write another runemarks/ runelight book there just so interesting and amazing and easy to understand

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Average story ruined by poor narrration

Joanne M Harris is not a writer I'm enthused about. I decided to give this series a go as I'm passionate about Norse mythology, but that wasn't really enough to make me like these books. I find most of the characters annoying or otherwise unpleasant, and the storyline doesn't compensate for that. However, this is just a matter of personal taste.

What is indisputable is that if you are a narrator paid to read a book that contains foreign names you aren't familiar with, you should spend a few minutes learning how to pronounce them. This narrator clearly didn't bother, and as a result she mispronounces most names in really awful ways. This isn't a case of someone messing up a foreign accent because of its difficulty; she literally just pronounces Norse names as if they were English names - Tyr, for instance, is Tyre, Idunn is Eye-dunn, Mimir is My-mir, and so on. It's extremely distracting and simply inexcusable. I have no idea how this audiobook passed the editing process without this issue getting addressed.

I find the narration in general to be uninspired and subpar, but again, that's just my personal taste. All in all, I've finished this book, but I wished I had not started it.

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