So This Is How It Ends

Its place in Avatars

So This Is How It Ends is book 1 in the Avatars series. It is followed by Shadow Falling. See the full Avatars reading order.

Before Wings of Fire made her name, Tui T. Sutherland wrote this early-2000s trilogy about a group of teenagers who discover they've been chosen as living avatars for the ancient Norse gods -- inheriting divine powers, and divine responsibilities, in the middle of ordinary high-school life. The series mixes contemporary teen drama with mythology-adventure stakes as the young avatars are pulled into the gods' old conflicts and prophecies about Ragnarok, forcing them to grow into powers most of them never asked…