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Pros

Bernard cornwall is such a good author. Good plot, suspense and story development.

Book #1 in the saxon saga gets 4. Netflix's the last kingdom is a real tv hit. I love the descriptions of the long boats, and can feel the ocean spray hitting me in the face as i read.

The book is a detailed account of the battle for england in the late 800s. Uhtred ragnarson is a saxon who was captured by the danes when he was 10 and raised as a son by ragnar. The danes consistently prefer their “pagan” beliefs, but are almost curi... Read More

Cons

It's not the best book, but it's a mildly entertaining read. The entire book is incredibly juvenile and shallow.

There is none of the humor or bantering that the show has. No character development whatsoever just dull emotionless characters. Brida, who in the show is a well rounded character, is as two dimensional as uhtred.

Creative inspiration hits on a certain idea once, and then you really need to move on before you get bogged down in repetition. It makes for * writing and irritating reading.

The protagonist is a pagan, who is constantly preaching at the reader about how great it is to be an immoral pagan, and how boring and hypocritical and evil christianity is. Cornwell continues to sermonize, this time about evils and tediousness of pag... Read More

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Furthermore, with the books the protagonist narrates the story, so you get to know what he's thinking.

There were some words i did not understand and with the kindle look up function i was able to do that without interrupting the ... Read More

Before i started reading the books, i had not seen any of the show yet (which i was glad of).

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great, good, historical, first and saxon.

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This product had a total of 8,979 reviews as of our last analysis date on Jan 24 2023.