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The Bone Thief (2012)

by V.M. Whitworth(Favorite Author)

3.69 of 5 Votes: 1

ISBN

0091947219 (ISBN13: 9780091947217)

languge

English

genre

Historical Fiction

publisher

Ebury Press

series

Wulfgar

review 1: I really enjoyed this book. Wulfgar was an engaging and endearing hero and I became completely immersed in his trials and tribulations. The other characters were also fascinating particularly Father Ronan and Gunnvor Cat's Eyes and I'm very glad there's another book in the series as I hope to meet them again. The author drew a compelling picture of England in 900AD complete with political machinations between Wessex and Mercia and between the Viking leaders. It all felt very believable, particularly in the way that the English of Mercia and the Danes of the Viking lands learnt to deal with each other. I look forward to the next book.
review 2: Very enjoyable, I love the setting of the so-called Dark Ages in England, although I didn't find it quite as satisfying... more as the "Uhtred" novels by Bernard Cornwell. Whitworth writes a good story but she leaves out much of the brutality of the time; at times I found myself thinking that this would be a suitable book for introducing younger readers to Anglo-Saxon England. Overall fun, but give me Bernard Cornwell's blood-soaked fiction any day... less

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