Bloodtide

by Melvin Burgess

Genres: YA Dystopian

Synopsis

London is in ruins, in the hands of two warring families of gang lords, the Volsons and the Conors. To cement a truce between the two families Val Volson offers Conor the hand of his 14-year-old daughter Signy. The wedding feast is disrupted by the dramatic coming to life of a mysterious one-eyed prisoner. The people are in no doubt that it is the god Odin, come to play a part in the affairs of men...

Release date: October 18, 2011

Publisher: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers

Print pages: 448