This was hands down the strangest book I have ever read. I honestly can't say if I liked it. I didn't hate it. But it did feel like two separate stories that got mashed together. They didn't feel like they belonged in the same book. 

  There's a shift in the book, where I feel like the story should have followed Krampus and left some of the side plots behind for a while. I didn't care about Dillard I felt like his parts, while eventually relevant, could have been shorter. That's the theme for a lot of this book for me, it just followed the wrong characters for too long. 

The book wraps up with a lot of things left unanswered or unfinished. It skips around a little too, which left me going back and re-reading parts to make sure I didn't miss anything. This book felt too long at times, but it also felt too short with all the unanswered questions.

One thing I loved, was adding in Norse mythology. I love mythology, and bringing pieces of that into this book made the lore feel real and lived in. I will be reading more from this author, but if this is how all his books end, he may not be an author for me, maybe leaving things as a mystery in this book is part of the point.