BOOK REVIEW: Raven-Blood Eye (Giles Kristian )

Book: Raven-Blood Eye

Author: Giles Kristian

Rating: 8.5/10


Osric lives a strange simple life in his village, feared by other due to a blood red eye, he has no memory of life as a child and simply goes fishing ans helps a mute carpenter Ealhstan with his work.  It's not a great life but nor is it a horrible one.

Then they came.

Some call them wolves of the sea, Others simply call them....Vikings!



They ransacked his home and killed the people living there. But they spared him.They believe that his blood red eye is a sign of Odin, one of their major pagan gods. And in the coming days Osric changes, from Osric red eye to Raven, a Norseman, a Viking!

Learning how to fight, which gods to pray to and how to be a Viking, Raven is a natural . Part of Sigard the Lucky's pack they go to pillage and plunder. But when they are trapped they must undertake a dangerous task to steal a sacred book from a king or their beloved ships will be burned.

Left with a choice of death, the burning of their ships and possessions, or going on this task there isn't much of a option.

So they embark on this adventure, but the way ahead through hostile christian land will test both the Vikings strength of body and strength of faith.
With traitors, plundering and fighting galore the Vikings travel through the land full of warriors and weaklings and items to steal, people to kill or take. This is one adventure that will test the best warriors imaginable.

But these are battle hardened Vikings and will not be scared off treasure by measly Englishmen.


This book was amazingly hard to write a review for and I don't think what I've wrote really conveys how good the book is, masterfully written yet not over complex it will grip you the whole way through as if you are their. Very different type of story to those I often read but you'd not be disappointed no matter what you normally read. One word of caution-I don't think this would be suitable for kids.
Amazingly good historical fiction. A book I could read again and again.

Hope you found this review helpful,
The Devonian Book Reviewer

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