Here's Amanda Meuwissen's "Last Thrall of Asgard." It's a second in her Lovers of the Gods series.
["Oli is not happy with his lot in life as a thrall, a slave to the noble family he has served since birth. If he believed in the old gods, he would curse them to their faces that a thrall is the most he could ever be. Few even worship the gods anymore, yet Oli is tasked with tending to their altar at the foot of the oldest tree in the nearby wood—where he is happy to defile it whenever the noble family’s son wants him on his knees.
After his most recent tryst, however, he learns how real the gods are.
Whisked away by the trickster god, Loki, in exchange for his freedom from life as a thrall, Oli is to apply his sensuous skills to appease the male gods still in mourning after Ragnarök. The time of the old gods is over, but as penance for the role he played, Loki employs Oli’s help to usher in the next chapter of the gods’ existence with a bang.
Most alluring of all, however, might be Loki himself—the one god playing hard to get."]
I fucking love Loki. Even though he's all...Loki about pretty much everything. There's something about him that's always intrigued me. The depths of his emotions and the reasons he does things, it always seems so opposite of what everyone expects from him. He’s the god of chaos (amount other things) but that doesn’t make him evil (near exact quote from Oli).
This story was less chaotic than the first one, then again Oli is less chaotic than Aikos so, there's that. But it still had the same helping-the-gods-heal goal. This one was a little more love, too (well, love for and acceptance for Oli).
I didn't know/don't know the Norse gods as well as I do the Greek ones, but this book was arguably more enjoyable.
Trigger Warnings: dubious consent due to power imbalance, unintentional poisoning, and more
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