Who’s Afraid of Beowulf
by Tom Holt (1988)

Who’s Afraid of Beowulf? Well, not Hrolf Earthstar, for a start. The last Norse king of Caithness, Hrolf and his twelwe champions are woken from a centuries-long sleep when Hildy Fredriksenn, archaeologist of the fairer sex, finds their grave. Not only that, Hrolf decides to carry on his ancient war against the Sorcerer-King.

Now I’m finished with Tom Holt. Thought I remembered enjoying ‘Falling Sideways” in 2000 and “Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Sausages” in 2011. But after two books of very mild humour and this one just getting boring, it just isn’t worth it.

I did enjoy his short stories and he is a good prose writer, so there is his fantasy work as K.J. Parker I might like.

But as for the ‘humour’, there are better funny authors out there.