Since when were deities such pussies? When your rag-tag team can (spoilers! kinda sorta) decimate practically the whole Norse pantheon, it kinda feels like we're dealing with a radically attenuated definition of a "god". Except for some other (also old pagan) gods, who are instead basically completely invincible because of Reasons and shh don't ask so much about what those reasons might actually be. Given the extent to which this book revolved around this aspect, it kinda played havoc with my suspension of disbelief given how it just didn't seem to hold up to any standard of internal consistency I could see. Hence the low rating for this outing.