For example, Chapter 9 was all in caps and only a size or two larger than the regular print with maybe half a dozen lines until the regular print started. However, the cover was ugly and the interior was too plain. This book appears to be self published and I admire that, to me it takes guts. I didn't connect to the main character and therefore didn't care what he did or where he went. I wanted to like this book, I normally like books about Vikings but it just seemed so flat to me. I'm sure it works well for others, and I love this sort of story, it's just that this one wasn't for me." To quote a fellow reviewer: "The author's style and voice just didn't work well for me. I am obliged to say that I received this book through the Goodreads First Reads giveaways and would like to thank Jason Born for the opportunity to read it!
If you're a fan of adventure stories then this will tick all the boxes. though those last two are kinda the same thing! It covers sea-faring, battle, boat-building, treasure, childbirth, double-crossing and politics. The story centres around the story of Halldorr starting with the prelude of his exile from Greenland and covers the 13 years of that absence until his return. I do wish I could do half stars as I would like to give this four-and-a-half. I didn't think I was going to like this book, I've found some viking literature to be overly graphic and lacking in actual plot but by the end of it I was ready for the next in the series! It's a beatifully written, well researched story that carries you through and leaves you caring about the vast majority of the characters, however flawed they are. He fights his way to wealth and in an epic battle, defending his king against overwhelming odds, he finds that it was not destiny, but betrayal that sent him into banishment thirteen years earlier. However, destiny strikes, forcing him to flee from Greenland to Ireland to England to Norway without her. Halldorr believes his life is his to command when Freydis, the fierce, fire-haired enchantress, at last desires to be his wife. He became bodyguard to a king, brutally fighting in monumental battles - Maldon and Swoldr - to be handed down for centuries in skaldic verse.īecause of a blood-oath made years before the murder of his father, Halldorr was adopted by an exile, Greenland’s discoverer, Erik the Red.
Instead, he found himself exiled, resigned to a life of raiding, killing for plunder and survival. The Norseman is the first volume of the vividly-detailed historical chronicles of Halldorr, an orphan whose entire desire was to lay beside both a warm hearth and a plump wife, but fate had another thread to spin.
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