The Pale Horseman (The Saxon Stories, #2)

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The second installment of Bernard Cornwell s New York Times bestselling series chronicling the epic saga of the making of England, like Game of Thrones, but real The Observer, London the basis for The Last Kingdom, the hit television series.This is the exciting yet little known story of the making of England in the 9th and 10th centuries, the years in which King Alfred the Great, his son and grandson defeated the Danish Vikings who had invaded and occupied three of England s four kingdoms.At the end of The Last Kingdom, The Danes had been defeated at Cynuit, but the triumph of the English is not fated to last long The Danish Vikings quickly invade and occupy three of England s four kingdoms and all that remains of the once proud country is a small piece of marshland, where Alfred and his family live with a few soldiers and retainers, including Uhtred, the dispossessed English nobleman who was raised by the Danes Uhtred has always been a Dane at heart, and has always believed that given the chance, he would fight for the men who raised him and taught him the Viking ways But when Iseult, a powerful sorceress, enters Uhtred s life, he is forced to consider feelings he s never confronted before and Uhtred discovers, in his moment of greatest peril, a new found loyalty and love for his native country and ruler. Best Read [ The Pale Horseman (The Saxon Stories, #2) ] Author [ Bernard Cornwell ] For Kindle ePUB or eBook – kino-fada.fr Ahhhhh Uhtred you are quite the lad Uhtred of Bebbanburg, Lord of Northumbria is as headstrong, arrogant, and fearless as ever Now married with a child at the age of 21, he rode into battle to Cynuit and slaughtered the Danish leader, Ubba Lothbrokson Fully expecting recognition for the deed upon his return to King Alfred, Uhtred meets the inexorable fate he always believed in The pompous, self important, Odda the Younger took the credit for the slaying, and no one, not even King A Ahhhhh Uhtred you are quite the lad Uhtred of Bebbanburg, Lord of Northumbria is as headstrong, arrogant, and fearless as ever Now married with a child at the age of 21, he rode into battle to Cynuit and slaughtered the Danish leader, Ubba Lothbrokson Fully expecting recognition for the deed upon his return to King Alfred, Uhtred meets the inexorable fate he always belie...The Pale Horseman is every bit as good as the first book This, again, feels like another chapter of a man s life Uhtred has grown up a little and isresolute in his ambitions since we last saw him He has fought in his first shield wall and has completed the transformation from boy to man he is now a proven warrior and,importantly, he now has a growing reputation but, not necessarily a good one His glory has been stolen by the coward Odda the Younger He has claimed the victory at The Pale Horseman is every bit as good as the first book This, again, feels like another chapter of a man s life Uhtred has grown up a little and isresolute in his ambitions since we last saw him He has fought in his first shield wall and has completed the transformation from boy to man he is now a proven warrior and,importantly, he now has a growing reputation but, not necessarily a good one His glory has been stolen by the coward Odda the Younger He has claimed the victory at Cynuit as his own, and the slaying of the mighty warlord Ubba as his work When Uhtred returns...For here starts war, carrion birds sing, and grey wolves howl A fragile peace still holds in the realms of Britain After the forces of Wessex prevailed at Cynuit, the Danes have pulled back King Alfred thinks himself safe, but in truth the last kingdom of the Saxons is in grave perilWriting a sequel to an amazing novel can sometimes be amazingly hard Bernard Cornwell fulfilled that task with style, and in the process created my personal favourite Uhtred novel and proved himself a masterFor here starts war, carrion birds sing, and grey wolves howl A fragile peace still holds in the realms of Bri...This one took a lot longer to get going than book one but the second half and the ending were very good The religious overtones to everything Alfred does makes me want to root for the Danes as does the corruption of many of the priests.Oh Bernard, how do you do what you do If I could write like this man, well, I d be one very happy chick And I do not want to write like this to make money, or make fans, or make myself famous, I just want to have this skill for myself, to know that I can do it, to know that I can create magic on paper, although, Bernard Cornwell, in this series at least, isthan merely skilled, he is an absolute master Would it be presumptuous of me to say that I think that he is a writer s writer or mo Oh Bernard, how do you do what you do If I could write like this man, well, I d be one very happy chick And I do not want to write like this to make money, or make fans, or make myself famous, I just want to have this skill for myself, to know that...THE PALE HORSEMEN is the second book in the Cornwell series focusing on England before it was England Unlike the first book, there s less fighting andpolitical maneuvering and focus on relationships HISTORY at this time England was something of a bunch of Saxon Kingdoms Seven, if memory serves The Saxons had actually taken most of the Kingdom from the Britons Welsh and had held a good chunk for several hundred years Now, it s the late 800s and the Danes are seriously beating th THE PALE HORSEMEN is the second book in the Cornwell series focusing on England before it was England Unlike the first book, there s less fighting andpolitical maneuvering and focus on relationships HISTORY at this time England was something of a bunch of Saxon Kingdoms Seven, if memory serves The Saxons had actually taken most of the Kingdom from the Britons Welsh and had held a good chunk for several hundred years Now, it s the late 800s and the Danes...I can t evenAnd I looked, Pyrlig said to me, and I saw a pale horse, and the rider s name was death, You like Viking You like badasses like my boyfriends, Uhtred You want a GOOD STORY THEN READ THIS BOOK Also, I think its safe to say that buying all the books in the serie...REINVIGORATE, MAN I shouted, then calmly began my review Cornwell always does a decent job of adding in just enough historical detail, both physical and immediate, to the story as well as historic and atmospheric for the background Then he layers on his stock, misunderstood hero regardless of time or place and serves up another entertaining action adventure story Hard to argue with a winning recipe, other than the argument that the palette desires something new sooner or later, and that th REINVIGORATE, MAN I shouted, then calmly began my review Cornwell always does a decent job of adding in just enough historical detail, both physical and immediate, to the story as well as historic and atmospheric for the background Then he layers on his stock, misunderstood hero regardless of time or place and serves up another entertaining action adventure story Hard to argue...Executive Summary Another enjoyable Historical Fiction book that I probably would have liked a bit better if I hadn t already known what was coming from watching the TV show I m really looking forward to book three now Full Review In retrospect I wish I had read this book before watching The Last Kingdom I had no idea that a 10 episode season would cover two books That s partly because they glossed over half of the first book, and partly because they cut a lot of detail out.I had been hopin Executive Summary Another enjoyable Historical Fiction book that I probably would have liked a bit better if I hadn t already known what was coming from watching the TV show I m really looking forward to book three now Full Review In retrospect I wish I had read this book before watching The Last Kingdom I had no idea that a 10 episode season would cover two books That s...Review in Portuguese from Desbravando Livros Narrado em 1 pessoa, O Cavaleiro da Morte possui uma narrativa ainda mais intensa que a do livro anterior Ap s vencer a batalha em Cynuit e matar Ubba Lothbrokson, nosso protagonista volta para sua casa no interior de Wessex e tenta retomar a sua vida, agora casado com Mildrith e pai de um garoto Mal sabe ele que o destino est sendo tecido e a guerra o espera novamenteAp s uma nova investida dos vikings, o reino de Alfredo ficou reduzido apen...

The Pale Horseman (The Saxon Stories, #2)
  • English
  • 04 February 2018
  • Paperback
  • 384 pages
  • 0061144835
  • Bernard Cornwell
  • The Pale Horseman (The Saxon Stories, #2)