With
Bernard Cornwell you are getting a consistent product. There is a
rich collection of characters and plenty of action.
This
Anglo-Saxon tale had a lot in common with his Arthurian trilogy with
I read as a teenager.
You
are taken to a plausible world, although I am not sure how far it
would past muster with historians. There is much in it with feels
like a very modern dynamic – gender politics, and religious
diversity – as with the Arthurian trilogy our central hero is a
Pagan living in an increasingly Christianised society, and somewhat
raging against the coming of Christendom – is this a mirror to us
is Christendom now appears to be fading.
It
kept me suitably engrossed to past the flight to New York – and
that was all I was asking of it so it is a success.
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