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Loading... Sword Song: The Battle for London (edition 2009)by Bernard Cornwell
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Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. No current Talk conversations about this book. This book starts a few years after the last book. Uhtred is married with two kids and another on the way. He’s pretty unhappy for most of the book. He longs to do anything but serve Alfred. The entire book is spent in and around London. I thought this would be the first of this series that I didn’t give five stars to but in the end I did enjoy it just as much as the previous books. ( ) »I only need repent, they say, and I will go to heaven and live for evermore in the blessed company of the saints. And I would rather burn till time itself burns out.« (Same here!) “Sword Song” is yet another great entry in this series! Uthred is supposed to capture Lundene - London - for King Alfred as a wedding present to Aethelflaed and Aethelred. Of course, Uthred prevails but only after a lot of water (and blood) runs down the Thames… At least, though, for a while Uthred can truthfully state »We were so happy.« - a very much deserved state of mind for both Gisela and him. We get to see some more humour in this book as well… »I killed that ship’s crew to save myself having to kill hundreds of other Danes.” “The Lord Jesus would have wanted you to show mercy,” she said, her eyes wide. She is an idiot.« I would have immediately read on in Uthred’s story but I don’t want to burn out my reading interest in him so I’ve temporarily gone on a different reading path! Meanwhile, four stars out of five for this book! Blog | Facebook | Twitter | Instagram | Pinterest | Medium | Matrix | Tumblr Ceterum censeo Putin esse delendam The year is 885, and England is at peace, divided between the Danish kingdom and the Saxon kingdom of Wessex. Uhtred has land, a wife, and children, and a duty to King Alfred to hold the frontier on the Thames. New Vikings have invaded the decayed Roman city of London with dreams of conquering Wessex…with Uhtred’s help. Suddenly forced to weigh his oath to the king against the dangerous turning tide of shifting allegiances and deadly power struggles, Uhtred-Alfred’s sharpest sword-must now make the choice. This series just keeps getting better and better. In this installment our hero has a few moral dilemmas and he "passes" the text in all cases (from the Anglo-Saxon viewpoint). Not sure if all the conniving of Alfred the Great or his uber (and sometimes unjust, IMHO) piousness was true; so hard to tell if he's a "good" guy or just a controlling, manipulative man. I have this entire series on Kindle--so glad, because at sometime I will want to re-read them, as I will Gabaldon. When exposed to so much new history and culture, it's hard to absorb it all and I'm sure I've missed many nuances. 338 pages no reviews | add a review
Is contained inThe Saxon Tales Collection: Books #1-4: The Last Kingdom, The Pale Horseman, Lords of the North, and Sword Song by Bernard Cornwell The Saxon Tales Series Books 1 - 6 Collection Set By Bernard Cornwell (Last Kingdom, Pale Horseman, Lords of the North, Sword Song, The Burning Land & Death of Kings) by Bernard Cornwell Has the adaptationIs abridged in
Uhtred has been made Governor of London while Alfred, building fortified towns to hold Wesssex, pushes into Mercia. No library descriptions found. |
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