Review: Hours of Hilarity!
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 01 25, 2014
I have already read and enjoyed two other books by Howard of Warwick and enjoyed them immensely, so when I found Domesday, I bought it right away.  What a bargain!  I have just finished it, reading over a two day period.  I think my husband was positive I had gotten into the wine, when he heard me giggling all the time.I love reading historical novels, which are mostly interesting and sometimes sad.  Domesday is a perfect foil, relating a perfectly fictional account of the search for the body of King Harold after the Battle of Hastings.  William sends four men to hunt for the body, including a captured Saxon with an attitude.  Meanwhile, four men - three Viking and one Saxon with an attitude - come from the north to meet with Harold and assist his escape via longboat.  Apparently Harold survived.  William's ruse for sending the men into the countryside is to take stock of what his new holdings contain (Domesday - eventually).  William doesn't want the Saxons to know Harold has survived.  Well formed characters, all with rather twisted personalities and all funny in their way.Very funny descriptions of things like violent seasickness, Viking bloody-mindedness, Norman bloody-mindedness, cowardice, cunning and Saxon villagers that are quite unimpressed by the whole thing.Put it on your Kindle for just 99 cents - you won't be sorry!  Of course, if you have no sense of humor - never mind.