Full review at Smart Bitches, Trashy Books 
 The Gospel of Loki is Norse Myth told from Loki's point of view, and wow, is it entertaining. It's not a romance since Loki pretty much shits on everyone who loves him and then is all "Why meeeeeeee?" But it's relevant to our interests because even though it is NOT closely related to Loki as played by our beloved Tom Hiddleston, the two share a similar voice, and it's pretty darn fun to picture this book, which has first person narration, being narrated by The Hiddles. And once you get through the first chapters, which are full of really dense origin stuff, the story is a ton of fun. 
 The Gospel of Loki has nothing to do with Marvel's Loki - this book is about Norse mythology, not The Avengers. Yes, I know that the Loki we know and adore from The Avengers is also inspired by Norse mythology, but very, very loosely, whereas this story is full on Norse myth with some original stuff by Harris to fill in gaps and enrich the characters. 
 Harris' Loki has a different origin, different motives, and even looks different from Tom Hiddleston's Loki (Harris' has red hair, for one thing). Harris is quite justly annoyed that so many people seem to think that she's somehow exploiting Marvel, especially since she wrote her first Loki book in 2007, four years before Marvel's Loki made his first screen appearance, and has written about her struggles with sexist dismissals of her books. 
 This book won't please everyone - Loki really is just awful and some people might be so appalled by his behavior (and rightly so) that the book won't feel funny to them. I have very little patience with an anti-hero, but this book was so clever and dryly funny that I enjoyed it immensely. Loki is terrible and you are clearly meant to find him terrible, but he's also tragic and charismatic and compelling. He's a trickster, like Coyote, who becomes involved in big level events. He's a pretty complex character and you truly never know what he'll do - except that it will almost always be dishonest, it will be aimed at his own self-preservation, and it will never, ever be dull. 
 - Carrie S.