I had no idea what this book was about before I started reading it. All I knew is that it has been much liked around the book community and that it fit perfectly into a category for a reading challenge.

The book is about two communities that are pretty Viking like in nature. The start of the book talks a lot about war and fighting. At first I thought that their enemy was supernatural and they were fighting for their lives. Except they are not, they are fighting because that is what they have always done.

I enjoyed the part of the story in-between fighting. Although, it is such a small part of the book.

This is one of those books where you could completely understand why someone else could fall in love with it. I could even understand it being someone else's favorite book. It just wasn't for me.