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.
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Wednesday, 6 July 2011
Saturday, 2 July 2011
Message from Devonian Reviewer: BLOG UPDATE
Dear Readers,
Quick and short post detailing a update/improvement to my blog.
I have updated my blog to include links to buy the books in the reviews at the bottom of each review. So far I only have links for the UK, USA and Germany but I hope to be getting more.
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The Devonian Book Reviewer
Quick and short post detailing a update/improvement to my blog.
I have updated my blog to include links to buy the books in the reviews at the bottom of each review. So far I only have links for the UK, USA and Germany but I hope to be getting more.
Hope you are finding my blog useful and will continue to use it to find out about and buy books.
The Devonian Book Reviewer
Friday, 1 July 2011
BOOK REVIEW: Dreadnought (Mark Walden) HIVE
Book Dreadnought
Author: Mark Walden
Rating: 7/10
In the fourth full sized book of the series. Otto and his fellow student at HIVE once agian get caught up in danger as one of G.L.O.V.E's senior members and a major person in the technology business Jason Drake leaves and tries to destroy the people he once worked for.
He was unhappy with events which transipred to leave Number One(aka Overlord) dead and diabolus Darkdoom in charge of G.L.O.V.E (the global league of villainous enterprises). He believed the Overlord story was made up by Dr Nero and Darkdoom to cover a coup they did to seize control.
This by itself wouldn't be a problem but Drake has access to top military equipment and resources and has created a plan to bring GLOVE down .
He launches an assault on GLOVE's new mobile Air command platform ,the Dreadnought ,that he designed as a flagship for Number One. Unfortuneatly Otto and his friends our touring it with Nero and Raven on the way to a training excercise. they find themselves in the middle of a fairly one sided battle that they soon retreat from in the shroud dropship they arrvived in. unfortuneately Diabolus is captured.
And it seems this isn't the end of his plan. not in the slightest. he's planning to destroy the balance of pwer and turn america into the site of the word's biggest natural disaster. To do this he kidnapps the president, access the most top secret missle program in the world, a series of missles in orbit capable of triggering an explosion at Yellowstones super volcano.
Otto is the only one who can stop the missles firing using his strange ability to cancel the launch. As his friends attack the dreadnought and escape he is left to stop the missiles.he needs to find the device to stop the missiles. thankfully their still on board Air force One. Only two problems.
He's on sutck board Air force one with the president handcuffed to the chair.
and Air force One is falling out of the sky.
This is a really good book in a really good series. It's exciting and keeps you interested the whole way through. although this series is clearly aimed at younger people and I really enjoy them. check out this series for a good read.
Hope you found this review helpful,
The Devonian Book Reviewer,
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Author: Mark Walden
Rating: 7/10
In the fourth full sized book of the series. Otto and his fellow student at HIVE once agian get caught up in danger as one of G.L.O.V.E's senior members and a major person in the technology business Jason Drake leaves and tries to destroy the people he once worked for.
He was unhappy with events which transipred to leave Number One(aka Overlord) dead and diabolus Darkdoom in charge of G.L.O.V.E (the global league of villainous enterprises). He believed the Overlord story was made up by Dr Nero and Darkdoom to cover a coup they did to seize control.
This by itself wouldn't be a problem but Drake has access to top military equipment and resources and has created a plan to bring GLOVE down .
He launches an assault on GLOVE's new mobile Air command platform ,the Dreadnought ,that he designed as a flagship for Number One. Unfortuneatly Otto and his friends our touring it with Nero and Raven on the way to a training excercise. they find themselves in the middle of a fairly one sided battle that they soon retreat from in the shroud dropship they arrvived in. unfortuneately Diabolus is captured.
And it seems this isn't the end of his plan. not in the slightest. he's planning to destroy the balance of pwer and turn america into the site of the word's biggest natural disaster. To do this he kidnapps the president, access the most top secret missle program in the world, a series of missles in orbit capable of triggering an explosion at Yellowstones super volcano.
Otto is the only one who can stop the missles firing using his strange ability to cancel the launch. As his friends attack the dreadnought and escape he is left to stop the missiles.he needs to find the device to stop the missiles. thankfully their still on board Air force One. Only two problems.
He's on sutck board Air force one with the president handcuffed to the chair.
and Air force One is falling out of the sky.
This is a really good book in a really good series. It's exciting and keeps you interested the whole way through. although this series is clearly aimed at younger people and I really enjoy them. check out this series for a good read.
Hope you found this review helpful,
The Devonian Book Reviewer,
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USA:
Germany:
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