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Avg. Customer Rating: 4.0 / 5.0
What is a review? J Chippingdale is allegedly a Top 50 reviewer. How can this be when his review looks just like the blurb from a hardcover jacket? Shame on you Chippers!
hmmmm to be fair to the book and Author, i usually read 18th Century Naval stories, so maybee it just wasnt for me? The story and characters are interesting enough but there were a LOT of Characters and they all have strange names to remember. My Biggest gripe about the book was the constant use of old, but probably accurate, language to desribe things. The author would tell you the Viking name of a town and then tell you what another tribe (who you've never heard of) would call it - and you wouldnt... more info
I hate to say it but.... ...this is a dreadfully tedious book. The concept, whilst not totally unique, is intriguing enough but others do this sort of thing so much better and in the process sell much more. I don't usually acquaint successs with quality but in the adventure/historical novel the benchmark has been set by the likes of O'Brian, Cornwell, and latterly Iggulden and Scarrow. This never gets off the ground ads the author tries ever so hard to get as much "history" as possible in here without thinking of character and... more info
Boring and poorly written by an old man I love these kind of books but i found this boring and hard to read as it was so poorly written. The battles were non existent-well except for a couple of sentences to describe an entire battle. Was this book wrote in a day? it was a rushed job. And no excuses i.e. 'it was his 1st novel' etc etc It was written by an old man for a young audience and he is clearly out of touch with his target audience. It was a good idea but it was a snooze-fest reading this. Not in the league of 'The Last Kingdom' I will... more info
