The Valhalla trilogy is unlike any other book series I’ve ever read, and certainly none of the science fiction I’ve read really matches up to it. Unfortunately, I didn’t have the money to get the books right away, which worked out fine I waited to get the books until the third and final of the series, Gudsriki, came out in October, 2015, so I could binge-read the entire trilogy all at once.
It’s LGBTQ genre fiction, which there is not enough of. Suddenly it wasn’t just any old sci-fi book anymore, nor did it seem to be the kind of LGBTQ story that makes up much of the genre-that is, the “coming out and acceptance” story. My interest skyrocketed an LGBTQ protagonist made all the difference, and I later discovered that there was a nonbinary trans character as well. Then the second book, Ragnarök, came out, and there started to be even more posts about the series, including one that talked about how the protagonist was a lesbian. It looked interesting, sure, but did I really want to spend the money and time reading it? Sci-fi/Horror? It wasn’t really a genre I read often.
I briefly checked it out and wasn’t terribly interested. I’d followed a blog on Tumblr called Facts I Just Made Upbecause I’d thought it was entertaining, but I hadn’t expected to see promotional posts for the blogrunner’s book, Valhalla. When I first discovered the Valhalla trilogy by Ari Bach, I didn’t pay much attention to it.
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