Rating: 3.5
What it's about:
From out of the icy steppes they came, the fiercest and most feared warriors the world had ever known. At their head was the wily and ferocious Attila of the Huns, and behind him lay a trail of pillage and carnage. To forge peace with the mighty Attila, a young Burgundian prince is sent as a foster son to the merciless warlord. Here young Hagan learns the fighting arts of the Huns as he develops an uneasy relationship with his unpredictable new foster father. But it is during his first battle that Hagan learns the most important - and most dangerous - lesson of all. A gasp away from death, he discovers the pathway to the otherworld - a knowledge he must guard carefully for it makes him a dangerous adversary of Attila himself. -from Barnes and Noble
My thoughts:
This book has many different elements. Forbidden love, war, magic and spells are just a few of those elements. As the reader follows Hagan to the war camp of the infamous Attila of the Huns we get a glimpse of what it may have been like to live there from the perspective of both males and females. Stephan Grundy is good at describing the environment and making the reader feel he/she is a part of it. The only downfall of the book that I can see is the author leaves some issues unresolved at the end. When I turned the last page I found myself asking a lot of questions. One being what happened to Hagan and his new bride? Did they find happiness together or just toleration? But questions aside, the book is a good one.
1 comment:
It's been a while since I read this book. The part that stuck with me the most is when Hagan spies on his friends wedding (who's Christian) because he was curious about them "eating" and "drinking" the body and blood of Christ.
I'd give this book a 4.0
Been trying to get you to read this one for a long time now. LOL.
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