The Lords of the North by Bernard Cornwell is the third novel in the Saxon Stories. This story follows Uhtred's trip to the North as Uhtred, having served Alfred well, looks for an opportunity to return home.
Started: 5/20/2012
Completed: 6/16/2012
Recommendation: Still hooked by this series
Recommended By: Nobody
Review:
In this book, we get some of the "action tension" that a romantic comedy uses as "romantic tension." There is action and it seems to be constant. It is clear by this book that Uhtred is going to get in a scrape and come out victorious. This is the first book, however, in which Uhtred really takes a hard loss from his action and it is a harbinger of things to come. This book mostly seems to set the stage for some future work where the events of this book were critical to some future plot twist. With little surprise, the plot in this book moves as expected with one surprising (though constantly foretold) event. I don't want to give away the plot, but it did throw me.
I did not realize that there were several audio version of this book and leaving Jamie Glover (I think to listen to Richard Armitage) hurt the book in my ears. The phrase "Uhtred of Bebbinburg" no longer had the ring of longing associated with it. The names of characters and places were pronounced differently and it took a little bit of a recovery to once more suspend my disbelief.
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