Reviews tagging 'War'

The Last Duel: A True Story of Trial by Combat in Medieval France by Eric Jager

2 reviews

sba2x's review against another edition

adventurous challenging informative slow-paced

1.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Blood, Death, Pregnancy, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, War, and Violence

Minor: Child death, Death of parent, Infertility, Injury/Injury detail, Misogyny, Religious bigotry, and Sexism

tatiannaskye's review against another edition

challenging dark informative tense medium-paced

3.0

Going into this book I didn’t know what to expect, maybe a nonfiction book that read like fiction but I was totally wrong. The book itself was very informative, though was somewhat confusing in some places. Not gonna lie there were times where I was like, “what the fuck am I reading”, but there were also times where I was like, “holy shit that’s insane”. Overall the book was both a hit and miss, it had great parts and terrible parts. Was it worth reading? Yes. Would I read it again? Mmm maybe (it depends). All jokes aside, I am glad I read this book before watching the movie (even though I have yet to watch the movie, but I’ll probably update this review when I do)! 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape, Murder, Animal death, Torture, War, Sexual assault, Animal cruelty, and Death

Just a lot of stuff you’d imagine in the last 1300s.