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God of Vengeance
by Giles Kristian
I remember reading, quite a few years back, all 3 of [a:Giles Kristian|2776821|Giles Kristian|https://images.gr-assets.com/authors/1519755456p2/2776821.jpg] 'Raven' series of Viking novels.
I remember thinking that, while they were OK, that I wasn't overly enamoured of his style of writing, or of the books in general.
As a result, I never picked up his 'Burning Land' (English Civil War period) series, nor did I ever really go looking for any other wroks by the same author.
However, when I saw this novel on sale for something like 99p on Amazon, I thought I might as well pick it up and see if, as tastes change over years, that I felt any different about this series (at the time, completely unaware that this was prequel of sorts) than about the Raven series.
And, I have to say, I do feel differently than before.
Unfortunately, however, I found this particular novel to be a bit of a chore to wade my way through.
It's not that there's not the outline of a good plot here - tales of revenge often act as the impetus for such books - just that I found this be rather slow moving, and could never really immerse myself in the period or bring myself to care all that much about the characters, their motivations, or about any of the incidents that occur to them.
I'm sorry to say, but I think for my Viking fix I'll be sticking with [a:Bernard Cornwell|12542|Bernard Cornwell|https://images.gr-assets.com/authors/1504578807p2/12542.jpg]'s 'Saxon Stories' (that start with [b:The Last Kingdom|68527|The Last Kingdom (The Saxon Stories, #1)|Bernard Cornwell|https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1407107780s/68527.jpg|881821] in future.
Sorry Mr Kristian!
I remember thinking that, while they were OK, that I wasn't overly enamoured of his style of writing, or of the books in general.
As a result, I never picked up his 'Burning Land' (English Civil War period) series, nor did I ever really go looking for any other wroks by the same author.
However, when I saw this novel on sale for something like 99p on Amazon, I thought I might as well pick it up and see if, as tastes change over years, that I felt any different about this series (at the time, completely unaware that this was prequel of sorts) than about the Raven series.
And, I have to say, I do feel differently than before.
Unfortunately, however, I found this particular novel to be a bit of a chore to wade my way through.
It's not that there's not the outline of a good plot here - tales of revenge often act as the impetus for such books - just that I found this be rather slow moving, and could never really immerse myself in the period or bring myself to care all that much about the characters, their motivations, or about any of the incidents that occur to them.
I'm sorry to say, but I think for my Viking fix I'll be sticking with [a:Bernard Cornwell|12542|Bernard Cornwell|https://images.gr-assets.com/authors/1504578807p2/12542.jpg]'s 'Saxon Stories' (that start with [b:The Last Kingdom|68527|The Last Kingdom (The Saxon Stories, #1)|Bernard Cornwell|https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1407107780s/68527.jpg|881821] in future.
Sorry Mr Kristian!