The Fourth Courier
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It is 1992 in Warsaw, Poland, and the communist era has just ended. A series of grisly murders...
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The Viking's Captive (Clan Hakon #2)
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Prophecy spoken. Alliances broken. Will duty come before love? The Viking's Captive is the...
Owerd the Briton
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In Saxon England of the 1060s, the prospects for Owerd are grim. He is a Briton; son of a miller;...
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North Woods
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FOUR CENTURIES. A SINGLE HOUSE DEEP IN THE WOODS OF NEW ENGLAND. A young Puritan couple on the...
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A Clever Girl, Part One
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Achtriel is a prodigious, but solitary, foundling living near Rouen in the seventh century AD. With...
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And so starts a series of events that will see the end of Tipu Sultans reign, Abbas’ journey to France and his subsequent quest to find and recover the tiger for himself. It’s a tale full of adventure, danger and romance. I really enjoyed it!
Saved by the Matchmaker (A Shanahan Match #2)
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Sullivan O'Brien, a steamboat captain committed to aiding enslaved people on their path to freedom,...
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Affect and Belonging in Contemporary Spanish Fiction and Film: Crossroads Visions: 2017
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This book brings together recent Spanish fictions and films that point to individualism as the root...
The Revolution of Marina M.
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From the mega-bestselling author of White Oleander and Paint It Black, a sweeping historical saga of...
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David McK (3372 KP) rated A Flight of Arrows (The Hundred Years War #1) in Books
Sep 17, 2023
Especially when it was on Amazon as #1 in archery.
Unfortunately, I found it rather sluggish in parts, with it never really gripping my attention the same way as a historical novel by Bernard Cornwell or Simon Scarrow or Angus Donald does.
This is set during the early stages of the 100 Years War (which lasted for 116 years), and is really a detective/spy story (rather than concentrating on the lives of the archers) as the herald Simon Merrivale investigates the assassination of an English knight , leading up to and including the Battle of Crecy.
Don't get me wrong - I enjoyed the history, and learning a bit more about the times and the background to the war; I just wish it had gripped me more somewhat.
Maybe the sequels will follow through on that ... ?