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katie2468 's review for:
The Winter King
by Bernard Cornwell
This book it is well written with an interesting take on the tales of Arthur unlike any I have ever heard before. The battle scenes were gory and exciting and the characters well formed and easy to imagine. The list of characters at the beginning was very helpful for there were a lot! I will be reading the second one and look forward to it.
I did , however, find some parts of the story tedious and hard to focus on and I also found the role of women in the tale quite a difficult read. Although I imagine the treatment of women to be fairly historically accurate there were points where I felt like the author over used examples of this horror and yet cast these scenes aside like they should just be accepted by the reader as background narrative. That is, until the end which was immensely satisfying to read and re-read…
I did , however, find some parts of the story tedious and hard to focus on and I also found the role of women in the tale quite a difficult read. Although I imagine the treatment of women to be fairly historically accurate there were points where I felt like the author over used examples of this horror and yet cast these scenes aside like they should just be accepted by the reader as background narrative. That is, until the end which was immensely satisfying to read and re-read…