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A review by stormlightreader
The Burning Land by Bernard Cornwell
4.0
Hmm, parts of this felt really good and other parts felt slightly less good, but overall it's hard to give it less than 4* because Uhtred and Æthelflæd's relationship is lovely and there was a lot of Finan!
The biggest drawback of this book is how shallow Uhtred is about women. Once you get past the fact that Uhtred IS going to sleep with women even though his wife, Gisela, is pregnant, or that he is going to start being affectionate right after she and his new baby died, then it's all good. The show also shows Uhtred's indifference to his existing children, particularly, Uhtred, but this is definitely more apparent in the books.
Overall, slow paced book, for me the Skade stuff is particularly slow (I even thought this with the show). However, as usual, the battle scenes (and it felt like there were a lot in this book) were so well written and I really like the historical note at the end of each book, detailing how much of the book is history and how much is fiction.
NOTE:Uhtred is very shallow were women are concerned (p.196) .
The biggest drawback of this book is how shallow Uhtred is about women. Once you get past the fact that Uhtred IS going to sleep with women even though his wife, Gisela, is pregnant, or that he is going to start being affectionate right after she and his new baby died, then it's all good. The show also shows Uhtred's indifference to his existing children, particularly, Uhtred, but this is definitely more apparent in the books.
Overall, slow paced book, for me the Skade stuff is particularly slow (I even thought this with the show). However, as usual, the battle scenes (and it felt like there were a lot in this book) were so well written and I really like the historical note at the end of each book, detailing how much of the book is history and how much is fiction.
NOTE: