Kong Knud (5 books in series)
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review 1: Loved this 2nd installment of King Cnut series by Danish author Martin Jensen. It wasn't as good as the 1st but I think that's pretty typical for me (to like the 2nd of a series that is). Halfdan and Winston have to figure out who killed the murder victim - this one killed in the...
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review 1: As a general rule, if the protagonist of a book is insisting to the reader within the the first 20 pages that some sex he had was totally consensual no matter what the woman he slept with said, there's going to be an uphill battle for me to like the story. This is even more true ...
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review 1: An interesting murder mystery set in medieval Oxford as Cnut aims to unify Saxons, Vikings, and other assorted groups, and impose peace on a war torn England. The Saxon illustrator Winston and impoverished half-Danish nobleman Halfdan join forces to investigate a violent death, a...
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review 1: This book was set in 1018 during the reign of King Cnut, an era and reign I knew nothing about so an educational read for me. The narrator is a former nobleman's son who has turned thief and con man in order to survive, who ends up being befriended by an illuminator on the road t...
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review 1: I wished I enjoyed this more than I did. I like historical fiction and enjoyed learning a bit about a period that I don't know a lot about. I wanted to like the main characters, but they seemed flat and two dimensional. The language seemed too modern. There was a passage that res...