Julian Atterton
Autor de The Fire of the Kings
Series
Obras de Julian Atterton
Etiquetado
Conocimiento común
Miembros
Reseñas
P7 Boy
Main character is male
this has good clear writing although it does manage to give a feel of the oldie worldie writing that goes witht he era of this book. The characters are in some ways a little flat, but that may be due to the conflict in what i remember the story to be.
Here Robin was a farmer, for some reason i think that he should be a knight. However This story hangs together well, is believable and flows.
Main character is male
this has good clear writing although it does manage to give a feel of the oldie worldie writing that goes witht he era of this book. The characters are in some ways a little flat, but that may be due to the conflict in what i remember the story to be.
Here Robin was a farmer, for some reason i think that he should be a knight. However This story hangs together well, is believable and flows.
I think I was about 13 when I first read this book and I was absolutely blown away by it. There is just the right amount of historic detail in it to fascinate a youngster (or certainly a bookish history-geek teen like I was) but it's also a story told at a cracking pace, with really engaging major characters.
Estadísticas
- Obras
- 10
- Miembros
- 73
- Popularidad
- #240,526
- Valoración
- 3.4
- Reseñas
- 3
- ISBNs
- 22
- Idiomas
- 2
This is short for historical fiction, being around 160 pages, though I believe this is because the novel is aimed at older children. I found no written indication that this is the case, but browsing the author’s other works, I noticed that some titles are indeed for older children.
Whatever the case, ‘The Fire of Kings’ is suitable for adults. It’s engaging from the first page onwards. Opening in 597, we follow Edwin and Osric from about age eleven or twelve through to their late forties. Multiple years are skipped over every so often, with the narrative focusing on the most important events in Edwin’s history.
The prose is at times a little passive and Osric tends to lack emotion. He loses a few people he cares for yet you never learn how deeply these losses affect him.
The battles could’ve been much better if dramatized. Instead, they’re rushed over, so you feel little of what Osric and Edwin are experiencing. Again, it’s another example of Osric’s character lacking emotion. This isn’t to state that the battles or minor confrontations are boring, though. They work well enough, but it’s a shame the author didn’t develop these and make them more vivid. Perhaps he toned them down because the novel is, as I suspect, aimed at younger readers, in which case I guess he didn’t want battle scenes to be too graphic. If this is so, then that’s fair enough.
Whatever your age group, if you’re interested in Edwin and/or Anglo-Saxon biographical fiction, then ‘The Fire of Kings’ is worth checking out.
An entertaining read.… (más)