A review by scutajar
Three Hearts and Three Lions by Poul Anderson

5.0

This book was a gift from Stef and an attempt to read classic fantasy that inspired Dungeons and Dragons (as one of the books often mentioned by [a:Matt Colville|17055400|Matt Colville|https://s.gr-assets.com/assets/nophoto/user/u_50x66-632230dc9882b4352d753eedf9396530.png]). The portrayal of the world and its denizens are stunning, and I found myself repeatedly gripped by Anderson's description of the Holger's encounters. The only place I struggled was in the dialogue, where use of heavy dialect, old English and a smattering of different languages here and there sometimes made it hard to keep up.

Overall, an excellent book, and one of the few to
leave me with a sense of frisson when I got to the end.