He isn’t your stereotypical hero with a north-facing moral compass. Characters – 4/5Ĭornwell carries on where he left off with The Last Kingdom in continuing Uhtrid’s imperfect and almost insolent personality. However, Cornwell’s impressive knowledge of the time period made me concentrate hard to learn as I read. Also, the writing is a tad too passive and caused me to zone out every now and then. They’re probably 100-200 pages too short to be able to fill in with as much detail as I would have liked.
It was worth it.ĭue to the shortness of the books, there’s a certain element of not quite being able to fully immerse me in these books though. The final section of the book gripped me and instead of listening to the audiobook, I picked up the physical copy so I could fully immerse myself in it. I didn’t find myself totally hooked by a lot of what was going on, but did find myself, at times, pulled in by certain moments and action scenes. There isn’t really one overarching goal, it’s more about Uhtrid wandering around and finding different places to get involved with, whilst always coming back to King Alfred and Father Beocca. In a similar vein to The Last Kingdom, The Pale Horseman takes us on quite a few journeys with Uhtrid. The Pale Horseman continues to follow Uhtrid as he encounters different personalities along the way, staying close to King Alfred whom he is watching develop into a very intelligent King. I love history and so love historical fiction – I enjoyed Cornwell’s writing style and the massively flawed Uhtrid. The Last Kingdom was a book that I had a lot of respect for. The Pale Horseman is the second in the series and carries on the story of Uhtrid and everyone he comes up against. However, his ‘Last Kingdom’ series is likely his biggest having been made into a critically acclaimed and very successful Netflix series too. Bernard Cornwell has built up quite the repertoire of best-selling historical fiction novels.
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