The new novel in Bernard Cornwell’s number one bestselling series The Saxon Tales, on the making of England and the fate of his great hero, Uhtred of Bebbanburg. A fragile peace governs the kingdoms of Wessex, East Anglia, under the rule of the late King Alfred’s son, King Edward, and Mercia, under his daughter Aethelflaed. Uhtred, her formidable champion and greatest warrior, controls the northern parts from the strongly fortified city of Chester. But no one can prepare them for the storm that is about to descend. The Northmen, allied to the Irish, come in force under the cover of night, up the Mersey, perhaps to attack Chester, perhaps to rage and pillage through Mercia, perhaps to take the troubled kingdom of Northumbria. They are led by the terrifying Viking warrior, Ragnall Iverson, a fierce fighter and ruthless leader.

This book is the 9th book in the “The Last Kingdom” book series. And it is also my first book in this series. Which is a very bad place to start a book with. To be fully honest I got this book as an gift last year I think and I wanted to read this book to see if I would like the series before I would buy the rest of this series. And I love this book and this series so far. 

The plot of this book is amazing and really give me like the biggest Vikings vibe even thou it is a little bit different. But it gave me a deja vu to when I first started watching Vikings. Which really made me love this book even more. 

The writing style here was amazing, it was very close to being a masterpiece. It lacked couple of things here and there but it was still amazing and super good. 

The characters here also reminded me of vikings in a way. Of course they felt like a poor version of the characters from vikings but still as it being a whole different series I just loved them. Ever character here had something to them and it really felt like real people from that era. 

There were couple of funny moments here and there in this book. But for the most part this book will keep you on edge and keep you interested from the beginning to the end. 

This book have some ruthless and gory scenes here and there so if you might get triggered by it I would recommend to not read it. But for me personally these ruthless and gory scenes made it more fun to read this book because you can’t tell a viking story without the violence.  

The hatred, the battle and the drama between the Danes and Christians was really amazing here and it really made this book so much better because it added a mode to the book. 

The ending here is also very good but there was a cliffhanger there which really made me pissed off because I hate when it happens. 

I Give This Book 4 / 5