Reply To: Book Club Thread: The Winter King – Part 1 **SPOILERS**

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@templar007

“There is some action but mostly political intrigue and sitting the groundwork for what’s to come.”

Yeah I think this is because the book is written in the first person with the narrator now an old man telling the tale of Arthur through his own personal history. This in itself leads to a problem with action scenes as we know that Arthur and the Narrator obviously survive so any suspense is diminished, and in the case of The Winter King led to a few predictable moments.

This is one of the reasons I dislike books written in the first person although I have persevered with this one as I am a fan of Cornwell’s Sharpe series and the descriptions of life in the dark ages with the decaying Roman architecture are brilliant.

Saying that the book was ok