The Gathering Storm

This is the first book in a trilogy, centered on the life of the Norse trickster, Loki. Essentially, this is a reworking of the Norse myths, in which the character commonly identified as the god of mischief and wickedness, gets to tell the story from his point of view. The twist in this book, however, is that it take what folklorists call an euhemeristic point of view with this mythology, i.e., it treats Loki, Odin, Frey, and company as if they were real human beings, who lived ages ago on a lost island continent they called Igdrasil, which, as in the myths, was also divided into nine realms inhabited by distinctly different peoples and cultures.