It's an OK story but as a prequel I have problems - by the first book they both seem to have forgotten what happened here (and they shouldn't have). It was presumably written after the novel, but... ( )

Once I finished the first novel in the series, I realized that there is a prequel (which seems to have been published later; the story itself is set 6 months before the first novel) and is available from the author's website. The resident Valkyrie is in the middle of organizing yet another event and someone slips in a cursed object - in a place where the mortals can find it. Which is a very very bad idea - they have no idea that magic (or gods, or creatures) exist. So a search starts - with some of the people in it clueless at what exactly it is they are looking for and how dangerous is. The end made me laugh - and the story definitely works a lot better after you had read at least the first novel. ( )