Books 2014 - Runemarks by Joanne Harris

I was really looking forward to reading this - I've been tucking into The Almighty Johnsons, a New Zealand tv series about four brothers who are Norse gods, and I thought it'd be rather cool to read more about these chaps (the gods, not the brothers - though that would have been good too!)

Runemarks tells the story of a girl called Maddy, and a sweeping, imaginative story it is too, full of twists and turns and cleverness and oh-my-god I can't believe that although that kept me going through half the books, I'd almost stopped caring by then... waaaaaah! Joanne Harris, what did you do?! I love your books, why don't I love this one?

( Funnily enough, I'd delayed buying it... )