Characters need depth and scenes need development. He is a warrior as we are told ad nauseum and he wants to fight – see arm itching – but there is a lot more to a good book than battles. For a man that leads men into battle he has a very short fuse and he is really not too bright. Aitcheson and I would imagine that he will get better with Tancred as he goes forth in the world. My two major complaints being expressed I can write that I did find the book readable.The author’s note in the back indicates that it is based in history and that many of the characters did exist. Maybe I shouldn’t type reviews when I have a headache. I did read an ARC so maybe this was corrected in the final copy. I appreciate that Tancred wants to fight but seriously there has to be another way to express it other than his sword arm itching. In fact if it itched one more time I was going to take a sword and cut it off.
Who he knew for about six months, couldn’t communicate with because he speaks French and she spoke English but hey, the sex was good. There Tancred reluctantly agrees to a task for a new lord despite wanting to stay, fight the enemy and be the one to kill Edgar the Aethling – the one who leads the rebels and therefore responsible for the death of his former master.Īnd the woman he continues to dream about. Wounded while fighting, he and two friends managed to escape and find help for Tancred’s wound the next town up. In a surprise attack while Tancred and some of his men are out scouting the town is attacked and his Lord, Robert Commines is killed. It’s 1069 and things are not settled for William the Conqueror in England, especially in the North.
Tancred is a knight following his lord as they move into Northumbria post Hastings.
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