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Summary

Magnus Chase and the Gods of Asgard: Ship of the Dead by Rick Riordan is about the einherji demigod son of the norse god of summer Frey, who resides in Valhalla after heroically dying in an attempt to stop the fire giant Surtr. The book focuses on his and his fellow residents of Hotel Valhalla floor 19, along with their other companions attempts stop Loki from sailing off on Naglfar, the titular Ship of the Dead and delay the event of Ragnarok, which would be the end of all realms where many of the gods, giants and einherji are fated to die. I thought this book was very good. It is of good length for a book for teens and has a nice text size so that one doesn’t have trouble reading it. The book also has an encyclopedia of norse mythology terms at the end of the book, with short descriptions. So if you want to know what a term means, you can just look at the end of the book without having to google it. I would easily recommend this book to anyone who is interested in Norse mythology or the Percy Jackson series, as this book and the other two books in the series cover a wide part of norse mythology, and this book is set in the same universe as the Percy Jackson books, along with other mythology books by Rick Riordan. There isn’t that much of a connection between the two besides the appearance of two characters, so you don’t need to read the other series to understand anything.