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A review by thereadingdandy
De schemering en de dageraad by Ken Follett
4.0
Having read the other volumes in the Kingsbridge Saga and finding out there is a fifth on the way I decided it was time to pick up this lengthy epic. And boy, I was not disappointed.
it is 993 when the City of Combe Dalls victim to an assault by the Vikings. Edgar and his family are thus forced to relocate to Dreng’s Ferry.
Ragna of Cherbourg falls head over heels for the Earl of Shiring and eventually marries him. She becomes his Countess and has a new life and country to deal with.
Aldred, a pious monk with a well developed sense of right and wrong, finds himself appalled by the corruption he sees all around him.
All three of them will fall victim to the machinations of the Earl’s powerful and ambitious family and be instrumental in the founding of Kingsbridge.
As always I find myself engrossed in Follett’s work, whose gift for storytelling and bringing the past back to life never fail to grasp my attention. This prequel to ‘Pillars of the Earth’ truly is one of those books that wil grab hold of you and is very hard to put down.
it is 993 when the City of Combe Dalls victim to an assault by the Vikings. Edgar and his family are thus forced to relocate to Dreng’s Ferry.
Ragna of Cherbourg falls head over heels for the Earl of Shiring and eventually marries him. She becomes his Countess and has a new life and country to deal with.
Aldred, a pious monk with a well developed sense of right and wrong, finds himself appalled by the corruption he sees all around him.
All three of them will fall victim to the machinations of the Earl’s powerful and ambitious family and be instrumental in the founding of Kingsbridge.
As always I find myself engrossed in Follett’s work, whose gift for storytelling and bringing the past back to life never fail to grasp my attention. This prequel to ‘Pillars of the Earth’ truly is one of those books that wil grab hold of you and is very hard to put down.