SuitabookTroll Blood
Katherine Langrish
- Reading
- If the reader has not read the earlier trilogy books, briefly explain Peer and Hilde’s previous troll-fighting adventures first. Pause after intense scenes to discuss choices, consequences and how different cultures are represented.
- Themes
- Truth and responsibility: Peer is asked to stand up for truth and justice, while Hilde is asked to develop maturity, responsibility and inner honesty. The book’s stance on this remains unclear.
- History, folklore and cultural representation: The story combines researched Viking culture with Native peoples and folklore in a fictional historical-fantasy setting. The use of both traditions is presented as effective fiction, but the treatment of Native American material is also said to raise cultural-appropriation questions.
- Supernatural danger and emotional stakes: A realistic emotional landscape sits alongside trolls, ghosts, monsters, magic and a frightening supernatural creature during the voyage. The supernatural is treated as an intrinsic part of the world, with some otherworldly beings presented as threats and at least one as not inherently threatening.
- Worth knowing
- Consider whether the reader would welcome a story described as considerably bloodier and darker than its predecessors, with murder, cruel behaviour, frightening creatures, ghosts, monsters and other supernatural threats.