Viking blunders through fantasy setting

They say that you shouldn't judge a book by it's cover but from the cartoonish design of the cover alone you would suspect that this is not going to be your typical Viking epic and you would be right. This book recounts the strange adventures of the titular viking Gustav after he is shipwrecked on an unknown island, an island that actually contains the usual range of fantasy archetypes from orcs to elves and even a dragon, much to the surprise of Gustav.

The style of the book is somewhat in the style of the subject recounting his adventures to a biographer and on the whole it does work pretty well, but some of the nods to the audience are a little overdone at times, but the light-hearted tone of the book doesn't come at the expense of the plot, it mostly helps to give it a bit more character.

While the narrator generally did a good job, I was not entirely convinced by his choice of accent for the main character, it was a little jarring at first and never really seemed like a perfect fit even once I had got used to it.

Overall, this was a fun listen and given the way that the author has left himself enough threads to continue, I would be happy to return for more adventures of Gustav at a later date.

[Note - I was given this free review copy audiobook at my request and have voluntarily left this review.]

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