′Loki, Where Mischief Lies′ Introduces the Young Villain to Book Fandom

Mackenzie Lee is having fun, probably, with the best way to tackle best-selling novels in this time and age. With her Gentleman′s Guide to Vice and Virtue, she deftly showed what an experienced light can cast over troubled young man′s feelings. Of course, Loki is not agonizing about true love and gender identity, but he is definitely suffering over two very important things to him: sibling rivalry and Odin′s mistrust upon his power.

Now, in Loki, Where Mischief Lies, young Loki doesn′t know how to do magic; he is conscious of its possibilities, but he is not able to harness it. Besides, no one is willing to teach him magic, until Amora comes along. She is everything he thinks he ought to be: wild, defiant, and mischievous. Someone who speaks his language, someone to sneer at Thor from behind, feeling smug.

However, together they will destroy a prized possession of Loki′s father-a mirror that sees into the future-while trying to discover if one of Odin′s sons will cause the destruction of the realm.

As a result, Amora will then be banished to Earth, where there is no magic, a punishment meant to serve as a warning for him as well.

The setting is laid out then: pre-Avenger Loki is already feeling out cast and mistrusted: