A plot which, if allowed to succeed, threatens to undermine the entire Conquest. Yet even as Tancred seeks vengeance for his lord’s murder, he finds himself caught up in secret dealings between a powerful Norman magnate and a shadow from the past.Īs the Norman and English armies prepare to clash, Tancred begins to uncover a plot which harks back to the day of Hastings itself. Soon the enemy are on the march, led by the dispossessed prince Eadgar, the last of the ancient Saxon line, who is determined to seize the realm he believes is his. Badly wounded, Tancred barely escapes with his life. In the battle that ensues, their army is slaughtered almost to a man. Tancred a Dinant, an ambitious and oath-sworn knight and a proud leader of men, is among them, hungry for battle, for silver and for land.īut at Durham the Normans are ambushed in the streets by English rebels. In the depths of winter, two thousand Normans march to subdue the troublesome province of Northumbria. Less than three years have passed since Hastings and the death of the usurper, Harold Godwineson. Brilliant first novel in the mould of Requiem””by Robyn Young. This was what I thought of the book when I turned the last page: It feels wonderful to finally read a book that you enjoy and couldn’t put down because the story was so pressing and engrossing that it kept me at the edge of my bed (and sofa)!Īn ambitious young Norman soldier fights against desperate odds to consolidate the conquest of England in the years after the Battle of Hastings.

I’m back again today with yet another review of yet another book I’ve read.

Maybe it’s just me… But do you readers feel the same way too?Īnyway, let’s not dawdle on this. It’s weird to have either one book but not the rest. I just happen to like the idea of owning three books of the same series by the same author. My attempts to find Books #2 and #3 were in futile and had no choice but to find the other two online and read it on my Kindle. What’s worse was that I only found out about it when I decided to read it. Then I bought Sworn Sword by James Aitcheson from the annual Big Bad Wolf book sale and failed to realise that this was Book #1 out of three. I consider myself lucky only if the bookstore or warehouse sale happens to sell all the books required in a series which, in that case, I will buy all within that series. You know, I always try not to buy books that come in a series or a trilogy because I almost always never find the subsequent books that follow up with the first one.

Sworn sword james aitcheson