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Pirmdienas teikums #40

Pirmdienas teikums ir mana versija par Bonespark~ “Sunday Sentence”, kurā tiek izcelts teikums no tā, kas iepriekš izlasīts.

When he found them at last, they were right at the bottom of the iron-bound chest, folded inside a completely irrelevant sheaf of manumissions.

V.M. Whitworth ’’The Bone Thief’’ (Wulfgar, book 1)

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V.M. Whitworth ''The Bone Thief'' (Wulfgar, book 1)

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Edward, son of Alfred the Great, has inherited the Kingdom of Wessex and achieved a precarious set of alliances through marriage and military conquest. But the alliance is uneasy and the kingdom of Mercia has more reason than most to fear the might of Wessex. Their Lord is elderly and perhaps mortally sick, and his wife fears that she does not have the power to…

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Finished 'The Bone Thief' by V.M. Whitworth.

The writing is hardly the most spectacular I've ever encountered, and there was something a bit anticlimatic about the ending, when it seemed as though a trial involving the veracity of saints' bones and high treason sort of devolved into a game of childhood rivalries. And there were a number of missed opportunities in terms of certain characters - occasionally she was just a bit too conventional when she could have made it so much better by playing with a trope instead of playing it straight.

Still, if you want to read a book set in a research-based Anglo-Saxon England that gives you a pretty great feel for what life could have been like, and how various peoples got on, and the experience of faith in the early medieval period, that also has an absolutely fantastic Norse lady of war/merchant princess set against a deeply endearing secretary and cathedral subdeacon about two miles in over his head, or anything like that, I'd still recommend it. I'm definitely going to buy her second book 'The Traitor's Pit.' The historical plausibility alone makes it worth the read.