The Warlord Chronicles: Book Review
This is a review of the trilogy, covering the three books. Don’t get me wrong, the books are both short, but I am a bit lazy and I don’t think I need to write three reviews for the trilogy.
The books tell the story of Arthur and his knights, in a ‘realistic’ way. I say so because the books tell the stories about wars in grounded ways but there are still the magic and mystique here and there. Overall though the storyline is believable and as per Bernard Cornwell other books, the events are based on some historical references. He also explains where the similarities starts and where he took literature license to make things up.
I do not know much about (King) Arthur, except he has a magician named Merlin and they fought bad guys. I am also aware that he inspired the Warcraft story, and almost hundreds of other fantasy fiction, where he is a righteous man, pulled the sword Excalibur from a stone and removed the scourge from the face of the earth. Oh and he has his knights. Knights of the round table. Based on that, I felt that I can’t comment much whether the story followed the lore or not, but I can say that after finishing the the trilogy, it does create a great story about virtue and heroism but blended with the realistic and ugly nature of the human being.
The story manages to hold the suspense over three books. I attribute that to the way it was told. It is told by an old man to a princess, relating his story of meeting Arthur, and their adventures afterwards. It also begins with the end, where the readers know that he is now an old monk with a stumped hand, living with one of the wicked enemies to Arthur. One can’t help but wonder how did he came to that point. Was he betrayed? And many other questions came to mind. All of them were however answered in good time. I also liked that there was no ‘twist’ for the sake of it, but rather the answer came almost naturally.
Overall I would recommend the book for historical fiction fan.
