Review: Another solid, good read from HA Culley
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 12 14, 2013
HA Culley did it again. I read this book through the Amazon Prime Lending Library. I like this book enough that I am going to purchase it outright for my kindle. Why because it is worth a reread and this is an author I would like to support. The novel is well constructed and though it suffers from some of the usual pains of a sophomore novel in a series. it draws you in by the second third of the novel. It is a bit difficult in the beginning sorting out the threads of the character arcs. Some of the character are hard to find empathy with but They begin to grow on the reader. There is no clear hero  and certainly plenty of antagonists. The period is tumultuous and arbitrary. It is the novel that transitions us from the Norman invasion under William to the rise of Henry Plantagenet and the the beginning of De Brus and Robert of Locksley.  I would recommend it to all lovers of Medieval English history.