Ethics- Not Gonna Lie
Time to level with you on this- There’s a lot of cannibalism in the Valhalla Trilogy.
In the first book, the villain devours a small but significant portion of the main character. This leads to one amusing moment, after he cuts her fingers off, where she pokes at the pile of severed fingers with her toes and props up the middle one to flip him off.
The second book is little better with mention of “soylent goods” on the black market and a scene where one guy bits another guys head off with his surgically modified unhingeable jaw (which also has chainsaw teeth).
And the third book has the “rapist jerky” that’s become so controversial, in addition to the sale of a dead gang as “pork” to a local restaurant. It’s even suggested that the main character consumes a few people she probably didn’t have to. The thing is- None of this is why the Valhalla series is a highly immoral work.
Valhalla is about a band of paramilitary badasses who blow shit up to keep the world safe. They kill tons of people. People they don’t always need to kill. These aren’t books where the bad guy has to reach for the gun so the good guy can shoot him because the main characters in my novels would be the villains of any other. These aren’t heroes. They’re vicious monsters and that’s why the books are so much fun.
These are books where you can indulge the darkest parts of your mind. Your angriest core, your most savage instincts. This series is for the part of you that argues with some asshole then thinks for hours about beating the shit out of ‘em. The part that quietly wishes for something to go wrong so you can kick some ass and set things straight. The part that hopes the tailgating car hits you so you can walk back to them on the side of the road and take a crowbar to their face.
At the same time, it’s a series about a beautiful future, and a horrible future, about some very cool, clever people and about some demented warriors. It’s about ray guns and explosions and spies but it’s also a love story and a comedy tour and cathartic tragedy.
So the whole “rapist jerky” thing people are debating is a moot point. That’s the least of the terrors in these books. But it also fails to represent the inspiration and beauty of the trilogy.
And as for ethics- There are none. This series, by all measures, is immoral and unethical in nature.
When is the last time you read a book with a backwards moral? The last time you read a book that doesn’t preach, but slaughters its preachers? The last time a book spoke to you and didn’t just reason with your intellect but fed the demon living in your gut?
The Valhalla Trilogy is dessert. The unhealthy treat you deserve and crave.
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