Northlanders (11 books in series)
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review 1: Light years ahead of the first volume. A pleasant surprise.
review 2: Probably the best Northlanders arc to date.
review 2: Probably the best Northlanders arc to date.
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review 1: 15,95
review 2: These two stars are for the illustrations alone. Fantastic drawings but I found the story lacking.
review 2: These two stars are for the illustrations alone. Fantastic drawings but I found the story lacking.
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review 1: -Un emplazamiento de norteños es acosado por la plaga, y en la lucha de viejas costumbres,con las nuevas que trae un monje cristiano, se encuentra una joven viuda que solo quiere que su hija siga viva,entre la violencia,la plaga,el hambre y el machismo.-Creo que la historia podía...
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review 1: This was the best Northlanders storyline yet. The themes explored are timeless and the actual main plot could've been set in just about any time period.Hilda's husband, a wealthy merchant, falls prey to a plague that's been ravaging their area. Boris, foreign clergyman advises t...
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review 1: I was hesitant about reading this one since I didn't much care for volume 2, but I liked the first one a lot, so I figured I should at least give it a chance. And I think this one falls right in between the two for me. This one consists of four different short stories, including ...
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review 1: Vols 1 & 2 were both following 1 character entirely, however, this volume shifts, and we get a number of smaller (2 issue) stories. I kind of like the change of pace here. First, in "Lindisfarne", we read about a young Saxon boy and his cruel 'Christian' father, and a Viking inva...
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review 1: Of the three stories that make up this collection, I am surprised that they chose the final story to draw the title (and therefore collection tone) from. "Thor's Daughter" tells the story of a chieftan's daughter who must step into his shoes after his death - a potentially very i...
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review 1: Set in Viking Russia in A.D.1020, "The Plague Widow" examines a year in the life of a remote settlement under siege by a contagious outbreak. The residents of this village are so focused on shutting the outside world out, they don't think about who they're shutting themselves in ...
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review 1: Volume 3 of Northlanders is composed of a few short stories as opposed to one big narrative. Each of them is quite god with the standout for me being the "Shield Maidens". It's a story of 3 Danish women who escape their village that is being ransacked by vikings. They then nee...
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review 1: On the whole I have enjoyed The Northlanders series, but I found The Icelandic Trilogy lacking and failing to keep my interest. The art was good and evocative of the time and place. However, the characters just were not engaging and seemed only placeholders for telling the stor...
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review 1: Yet another strong entry in the Series by Brian Wood, who's obviously immensely talented. 3 stories in the 5th Volume, Girl in the Ice - about just that, a girl in the ice, and the old man who finds her; The Sea Road - about a ship captain who decides to strike out Westward into ...