“When a man must choose between nothing and everything he has small choice.” ― Bernard Cornwell, The Empty Throne The Good…: The Empty Throne contains the same fast-paced battle scenes, political scheming, and surprising twists as the other seven novels in Bernard Cornwell’s Saxon Stories. The Novel picks up a few months after the Uhtred fought Cnut and was […]
“Five things make a man happy,” I told him, “a good ship, a good sword, a good hound, a good horse, and a woman.” “Not a good woman?” Finan asked, amused. “They’re all good,” I said, “except when they’re not, and then they’re better than good.” ― Bernard Cornwell, The Pagan Lord The Good…: I’ve enjoyed all […]
“Every day is ordinary, until it isn’t.” ― Bernard Cornwell, Death of Kings The Good…: I LOVE THIS SERIES! Bernard Cornwell’s Death of Kings is another book in his Saxon Stories series to be essentially chock-full of battle scenes from beginning to end. After Alfred dies, other contenders for the crown come out of the woodwork to try to snatch the […]
The Good…: The fifth book in Bernard Cornwell’s Saxon Stories/The Warrior Chronicles, The Burning Land, picks up about two years after the incidents in the previous book. Uhtred and Gisela are expecting their fourth child, and life couldn’t be better. Until Alfred asks Uhtred to help him fight a new Danish conquer with his sights on Wessex. […]
The Good…: Like Bernard Cornwell’s earlier Saxon Stories, Sword Song, is full of action. In this novel, Uhtred is forced to take London back from the Danes. King Alfred sends him with his cousin, Aethelred, who has just married Alfred’s daughter Aetheleflaed and taken over control of Southern Mercia. Uhtred is sent as one of […]
“Wyrd bið ful aræd” ― Bernard Cornwell, Lords of the North The Good…: Author Bernard Cornwell continues to embed amazingly written battle scenes with narrative in the third entry to his Saxon Stories, Lords of the North. Like the last novel, this novel picks up right after (a month later) the events in The Pale Horseman. Uhtred has helped win Alfred’s […]
“We make children and wealth and amass land and build halls and assemble armies and give great feasts, but only one thing survives us. Reputation.” ― Bernard Cornwell, The Pale Horseman The Good…: While I enjoyed The Last Kingdom a lot, Bernard Cornwell’s sequel, The Pale Horseman, was even better. In The Last Kingdom Cornwell spends a lot of time (as he should) […]
“Pride makes a man, it drives him, it is the shield wall around his reputation… Men die, they said, but reputation does not die.” ― Bernard Cornwell, The Last Kingdom The Good…: If you are a fan of History’s The Vikings, then Bernard Cornwell’s The Last Kingdom is the book for you! This story takes place after Ragnar Lothbrok has died, […]
“But just then, for that fraction of time, it seems as though all things are possible. You can look across the limitations of your own life, and see that they are really nothing. In that moment when time stops, it is as though you know you could undertake any venture, complete it and come back […]
“Do not cite the Deep Magic to me, Witch. I was there when it was written.” ― C.S. Lewis, The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe The Good…: All of the characters feel so real when you read the book. Edmund is just as annoying as the first time I read this book, but that makes his […]