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A review by arszania
Bloodline by Conn Iggulden
5.0
Simply amazing! Conn Igguladen once more showed his exceptional writing and gave us a great piece of literature.
To be honest at the beginning when I started this series I wasn't convinced to the author and his style. The previous books were really good, I can't say otherwise, however in my opinion too much attention was paid to fictional character and action was slow. This referrals mainly to the first book and I was pleasantly surprised while reading "Bloodline" because this issues were no more problems.
Book starts just after the events that took place in Trinity and since the beginning we see an enormous change in the narration. Not the style and anything technical but it is fair to say the we lost many main characters in to previous parts of the series and in Bloodline it is clearly visible. Author focuses on Yorkists camp while Lancastrians take a backseat (mainly due to many deaths and lack of power). New characters are presented as well as the old ones and thanks to it I personally find it easy to completely forget that I am reading and pay know attention to my surrounding.
Another exceptional thing is also connected to the characters. Igguladen doesn't make them black and white. All of them all complicated and it is difficult (at least for me) to make up my mind about them and not change my opinion.
I musy admit that I am no expert when it comes to battles and militaries but I think that the book shows them quite good. Maybe not in many details but the most important parts and (what I consider to be a great advantage) shows them from different points of view. Battles are not glorified (ad least not really much), we can see how simple soldiers and peasants were affected by them however I thing that this thread could have been developed more.
I will for sure read the next part, clearly.
To be honest at the beginning when I started this series I wasn't convinced to the author and his style. The previous books were really good, I can't say otherwise, however in my opinion too much attention was paid to fictional character and action was slow. This referrals mainly to the first book and I was pleasantly surprised while reading "Bloodline" because this issues were no more problems.
Book starts just after the events that took place in Trinity and since the beginning we see an enormous change in the narration. Not the style and anything technical but it is fair to say the we lost many main characters in to previous parts of the series and in Bloodline it is clearly visible. Author focuses on Yorkists camp while Lancastrians take a backseat (mainly due to many deaths and lack of power). New characters are presented as well as the old ones and thanks to it I personally find it easy to completely forget that I am reading and pay know attention to my surrounding.
Another exceptional thing is also connected to the characters. Igguladen doesn't make them black and white. All of them all complicated and it is difficult (at least for me) to make up my mind about them and not change my opinion.
I musy admit that I am no expert when it comes to battles and militaries but I think that the book shows them quite good. Maybe not in many details but the most important parts and (what I consider to be a great advantage) shows them from different points of view. Battles are not glorified (ad least not really much), we can see how simple soldiers and peasants were affected by them however I thing that this thread could have been developed more.
I will for sure read the next part, clearly.