{"id":6869,"date":"2016-04-04T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2016-04-04T15:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/booksyalove.com\/?p=6869"},"modified":"2016-04-05T12:01:57","modified_gmt":"2016-04-05T17:01:57","slug":"c-for-compassion-in-a-valkyrie-maiden-of-death-by-kate-ohearn-book-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/?p=6869","title":{"rendered":"C for compassion – in a Valkyrie maiden of death? by Kate O’Hearn (book review)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"book<\/a> War! Glory! Valhalla<\/a>!
\nDeath. Separation. Loss.
\nSoul-harvest is a tricky business.<\/p>\n

After seeing warriors of all eras battle endlessly for fun and glory in Valhalla, the youngest Valkyrie<\/a> thinks humans are all war-crazed savages.<\/p>\n

But her promise to a dead soldier takes Freya and her raven companion to Chicago, and human school with its bullies, and being hunted by Odin’s own Dark Searchers for breaking the law!<\/p>\n

Read the first chapter here<\/a> (courtesy of the author) and meet Freya as she faces a destiny that she longs to change.<\/p>\n

Struggling against “the way it’s always been” – yes?
\n**kmm<\/p>\n

Book info<\/strong>:\u00a0Valkyrie \/ Kate O’Hearn. Aladdin, 2016. [author site<\/a>]\u00a0 [publisher site<\/a>]\u00a0 Review copy and cover image courtesy of the publisher.<\/p>\n

My book talk<\/strong>: Allowed to visit Earth only when reaping valiant warriors’ souls, young Freya defiantly escapes Valhalla to fulfill a soldier’s last request, but at what cost?<\/p>\n

As the youngest Valkyrie battle-maiden, Freya is reluctant to interact with humans as they die during their petty wars. Her first soul-harvest may be her last as she agrees to help Tyrone’s family in Chicago, against Odin’s law.<\/p>\n

Trying to camouflage her wings, listening to her raven companion (a little), helping kids stand up to school bullies – so far so good, until she begins interfering with Angels of Death, and Odin discovers that she’s on Earth!<\/p>\n

Can she protect Tyrone’s family without giving away her identity?
\nIs Loki the trickster on her side or not?
\nHow far will Odin go to retrieve this absent Valkyrie?<\/p>\n

First in a series that brings Norse legend oh-so close to modern Midgard\/Earth. (One of 6,000 books recommended on www.abookandahug.com<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

War! Glory! Valhalla! Death. Separation. Loss. Soul-harvest is a tricky business. After seeing warriors of all eras battle endlessly for fun and glory in Valhalla, the youngest Valkyrie thinks humans are all war-crazed savages. But her promise to a dead soldier takes Freya and her raven companion to Chicago, and human school with its bullies, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[69,19,30,41],"tags":[10,90,163,22,7,4,20,5,37,16,18,44,185,43,231,38,49,194,277,31,15,9,21,57,35,33,3,6,28,59],"class_list":["post-6869","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-adventure","category-fiction","category-legends","category-paranormal","tag-a2z","tag-abandonment","tag-african-american","tag-behavior","tag-beliefs","tag-belonging","tag-conflict","tag-coping","tag-death","tag-determination","tag-family","tag-friendship","tag-grandparents","tag-growing-up","tag-illinois","tag-magic","tag-memories","tag-military","tag-myth","tag-non-us-author","tag-relationships","tag-school","tag-self-image","tag-sisters","tag-surprises","tag-survival","tag-teens","tag-travel","tag-villains","tag-war"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6869","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6869"}],"version-history":[{"count":18,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6869\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6943,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6869\/revisions\/6943"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6869"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6869"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6869"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}