Review: The Hammer of Thor

The Hammer of Thor by Rick Riordan
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

I cannot express the love I have for Rick Riordan and all his characters, I simply cannot give a not biased recommendation for any of his books.
People that know me know about my love for myths, legends, and nordic culture, so I was more than naturally attracted to this story. I long waited for the book to arrive to my local bookstore and It took me long to read it (a month) but it was worthy.
Magnus is a great character full of positive traits, healing and the killing looks of Kurt Cobain (mentioned twice in this book). While all the characters have conflicts, my favorites remain to be Otis the goat that goes to the psychologist and now, Alex Fierro. I like Alex not because of the gender fluid, but because of the way of embracing the true self, the fluidity associated with being a child of Loki, and the clothing, that choice of green and pink is a winner in any context (or ask the Power Rangers).
Loki is another great character, he is as he's supposed to be, a trickster, plotter planning, clever puppeter that in this particular book creates a complex stratagem to set himself free.
I hope that Rudolph has now what he wanted and that Sigyn has a bigger role in the next book, because I like her as the goddess of Fidelity.
Well in this one, the heroes are trying to retrieve the Hammer of Thor (that he lost yet again) and most of the story revolves around our heroes trying to discover where it is. Utgar-Loki guides them (not without threatening their lives) to put the pieces together and figure out what are they set to do. Then they are to reenact a part of the Nordic Mythology that is quite settled in the collective memory, the time that Thor dressed as bride and accompanied by Loki fooled Thyrm to retrieve Mjolnir, but this time, Magnus, Sam and Alex were present. Sif was a fair representation, I liked her too.
I found it nice that Rick included Loki as woman and that Alex is born from Loki's female form, it was a nice detail.
There are storylines that need to be solved: Hearth's father and the rune, the curse of the ring, the fate of Rudolph and obviously the Ship of the Dead... but what I look forward is the Norse gods meeting the Greek/Roman gods as Percy meets Magnus in the next installment!
I just want to read it again (already!) because is one of those books in which actions just seem to happen just because they have to happen, but you can't put down, or at least, I feel it that way.

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