#I will say 'Hekla' does not play the major role one might expect

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Just finished James Brogden's Hekla's Children in almost one sitting and that was *gutteral sigh* very good. Hit the spot. Hit so many spots, actually. It's sort of a horror novel - buckets of blood, some fucked-up archeological finds, cannibal monster (one of my favorite horror tropes that actually scares me), a scene or two that had me realize I manage jaw trauma just slightly better than eye trauma (though with jaw trauma there's part of me joking I bet that would fix my TMJ). But with strong fantasy/adventure backbones. And that's where it really tickled my fun places (this may sound more erotic than it actually is, but really. So good.)

A parallel mythological world with time-travel shenanigans a la Mythago Wood? Check. References to both the Erinyes and Doggerland? Check, check! Situational bisexuality?!

There are a lot of twists and I don't want to give spoilers, but I will say there was one big character twist that was...telegraphed adequately, developed to more subtly than I expected (this is not generally a subtle novel) and so took some chewing on, but I was able to wash it down with copious tears, hurting in the right ways.