Review: Excellent Vikings! Recommended
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 10 5, 2012
This story is part of Robin Ingle's 'World's Edge' series of short stories and like 'Tyrker's Tale' - another in the series - is nicely written and historically accurate (as far as we can tell from existing records).I (marginally) preferred this story to the Tyrker story only because of its subtlety and the interplay between the three main characters. The theme this time is thwarted young love and revenge, but it ties in beautifully with the Tyrker story.As before Robin Ingle's mastery of her period is evident in the laid back storytelling style and she is completely at ease with her characters. As a writer myself I know how difficult it can be to achieve both simultaneously. I would like to have read five or six of these stories together, in order to become immersed in the world she has created and would have preferred a full length novel, but the writing is of a high standard and a pleasure to read, so I can put up with that lack! Recommended, but I want to read the novel.