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BOOK REVIEW: Lords of the North by Bernard Cornwell

Hello everyone. Welcome back to Bibliophilia Book Reviews. Today I am reviewing Lords of the North by Bernard Cornwell, the third installment of The Saxon Stories series. Read my review for The Last Kingdom, the first book of this series, here. My review for The Pale Horseman is found here. Like all my reviews, this review has spoilers. “I hated Alfred. He was a miserable, pious, tight-fisted king who distrusted me because I was no Christian, because I was a northerner, and because I had given him his kingdom back at Ethandun. And as reward he had given me Fifhaden….

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…