Valhalla
Tom Holt
Orbit
Paperback, 277 pages
Reviewed by Liz Simmonds, 15 June 2005
Meet Valhalla. Heaven for some and hell for others. The Vikings could think
of no better afterlife than one of war, women and wassail. A couple of other
characters find that the afterlife that they have earned is not at all what
they wanted.
Tom Holt's cast of regulars battles its way through a book that skates
close to the cutting edge of philosophy. There are hilarious embedded
one-liners and a few thoughts provoked as the meaning of eternity and
omnipresence.
Perhaps not the one to start Tom Holt on but good value for his many fans. **
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