The Gospel of Loki

Loki narrates his own gospel, and he warns you up front that he is a liar. Born of Chaos and courted into Asgard by Odin, the trickster recounts his rise among the gods, the alliances he forged and burned, the children he sired, and the punishments he endured for pranks that were rarely as innocent as he claims. Following the shape of the original Norse myths, the book marches steadily toward Ragnarok, the twilight of the gods, with Loki insisting the whole catastrophe was the inevitable result of Asgard's arrogance rather than his own spite. Harris gives the supreme narcissist of Norse legend the microphone, and the familiar stories curdle into comedy, resentment, and score-settling on the road to the end of everything.