Outside Reading Quarter Four

The novel that I have chosen is called Sword Song and was written by Bernard Cornwell. Bernard Cornwell is a famous British author that writes amazing historical fictions books that often are about wars. He is mostly known for the Richard Sharpe novels, of which I have read all twenty or so. He does this because he is an amazing battle-scene writer, describing the happenings of a battle as if he was there, and making it easy to take in at the same time. I believe this novel is appropriate because, even though he is British and Britain closely resembles America culturally, the novel takes place in the year 885 AD. When one goes back over a thousand years in history, it doesn’t matter where one is because the culture of any area will be incomparable to any modern culture found today. The novel is about a Saxon warlord that grew up with Danish Vikings and is confused about his allegiance. This novel takes place during a lull in the fighting between the Saxons and the Danes. I was released in September of 2007 and is the fourth novel in the current saga; of which I have read the previous three novels.