Hello everyone! Welcome to Bibliophilia Book Reviews…again. My name is Melina, and I am a bibliophile, a lover of books, a bibliophage, an ardent reader and a bibliotaph. I hoard books. I am all things biblio. In this blog, I review books of different genres including literary fiction, nonfiction, memoirs, fantasy, YA, and others. Please feel free to turn the page and look around. Hopefully, one of my reviews will help you decide to pick up a book or not. If you’re interested in a review for your published book, please click here to get on my wish list. Happy…
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…