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Title: Dry as dust
Review: Through the eyes of three women, we see the era in which the worship of Odin begins to wane as Christ comes to the Norse people. Katla, a woman born to slavery, learns freedom in Christ, but still she suffers much. Thorjeld, an old witch who worships the pagan demons, resents Katla and her neglect of the child born of Katla's rape, one Thorjeld believes is powerful and possibly the reincarnation of her own mother. Finally, there is the child herself, Bibrau, a warped, sick girl who hungers for love, but is perhaps one of the least loveable characters ever born into fiction. The narrative is dry and violent, and does not make you care about the people in the story. It might make a good sleeping pill.
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