BOOK REVIEW: The Last Kingdom by Bernard Cornwell

Hello everyone. Welcome back to Bibliophilia Book Reviews. Today I am reviewing The Last Kingdom by Bernard Cornwell. This book is the first installment of The Saxon Stories. However, the series was renamed The Last Kingdom after the premiere of the TV show on BBC America based on these novels in October 2015. I will talk both about the books and the TV adaptation here wherever relevant. Broadly speaking, The Last Kingdom series can be summarized as the story of Alfred The Great and how he and his descendants repelled the Viking invasion of Britain, united the four kingdoms of…