Status Updates From The Winter Isles

I-
This book had absolutely no reason to be so deep and so emotional to me
like-
I can't explain it.
IT WAS SUPPOSED TO BE ABOUT A BOY WANTING FAME WHY DID ALL OF THIS HAPPEN WHERE DID CRAP GO WRONG
IT WAS A F-ING TRAGEDY GODDAMNIT

Idek

I wasn't expecting much but
Oh
My
Gods



4.8 stars but I'm giving it 5 stars

"Here he is, the most powerful man in this world, and his fear dictates his actions. Even power is trumped by fear. Perhaps, he thinks, that is why the God of my father won out against the gods of my mother. Her gods only knew power. His God only knew fear."

It's pretty depressing

It's also kinda depressing seeing Somerled having a crap father and then being a pretty crap father

“I do Eimhear. I want you before God.”

I want to say there's something cozy about reading this except there's literally swearing and gore because yk, Norsemen and Gaels.
I think the better word is simple. Just a guy who yearns for fame and songs to be sung about him for years to come and a gal with a questioning nature and spite

I'm honestly really liking the writing in this