Part 5 of the Saxon Stories

With The Burning country Cornwell puts the long-awaited fifth part of his Saxon Stories ago around the England Alfred the Great and the Viking invasions. This part starts with another invasion, this time it's Harald the Viking results by Wessex and again it is the first-person narrator Uhtred brings a big victory to the Saxons. But soon after, he lets himself be carried away by an intrigue Bishop Asser and is opposite Alfred eidbrüchig. He moved to the north in the direction of his home Bebbanburg and joins the Vikings his foster brother.

Essentially, the book closes properly at the previous part. Small changes can be found in the narrative because Uhtred Now the one time or another from the exclusively retrospective narrative also allows a glance that he writes down his experiences in old age (like the narrator in the Arthurian tales). The story of the battle scenes is perhaps not quite as intense as in some of his earlier books, but it's still not for a weak stomach. In the middle section, he allows himself a few pages that do not want to seem to fit into the book in the style and drama. This part is probably the weakest part of the whole history.

Overall, however, yet there is a book worth reading and I look forward already to the next part of the series.