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The United States of Vinland #3
Loki's Rage
One Thousand years ago Norse explorers reached North America during the Viking Age.
What if they had stayed?
Join us in this unique alternate history as we begin rewriting one thousand years of history with the Markland Settlement Trilogy!
Reading Order:
The United States Of Vinland (USV#1): The Landing
A Short Tale From Norse America (ASTFNA#1): Young Ravens & Hidden Blades
The United States Of Vinland (USV#2): Red Winter
A Short Tale From Norse America (ASTFNA#2): Old Gods (written with permission by L.E. Sheppard)
The United States Of Vinland (USV#3): Loki's Rage (2015)
This open ended series will continue with future installments to chronicle the eventual founding and rise of one of the greatest nations this alternate world has ever seen.
What if they had stayed?
Join us in this unique alternate history as we begin rewriting one thousand years of history with the Markland Settlement Trilogy!
Reading Order:
The United States Of Vinland (USV#1): The Landing
A Short Tale From Norse America (ASTFNA#1): Young Ravens & Hidden Blades
The United States Of Vinland (USV#2): Red Winter
A Short Tale From Norse America (ASTFNA#2): Old Gods (written with permission by L.E. Sheppard)
The United States Of Vinland (USV#3): Loki's Rage (2015)
This open ended series will continue with future installments to chronicle the eventual founding and rise of one of the greatest nations this alternate world has ever seen.
600 pages, Paperback
First published March 13, 2017
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Colin Taber
32 books112 followersColin Taber lives in Sydney, Australia. He's done many things over the years, from working in banking, to retail, dish-pigging, publishing, landscape design, and even tree farming. All he really wants to do, though, is to be left to write. Thankfully that day is now here..
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March 22, 2020
I thought this book was a trilogy, but the author has aspirations for a whole series. Good for him!
Approximately 6 months after the event in the second book, (no 20 year gap this time) things are coming to boil. Trion The Wild is scheming to take over the House of Wolves, Seta and family are creating a whole house of Bears, and the Ravens getting along. Meanwhile, in Iceland, Ineka learns of her real mother, and decides to come to the New World to stake her claim. This requires murder most foul.
All of this leads to battle, and big changes in Markland. I hope the fourth book comes out soon!
Approximately 6 months after the event in the second book, (no 20 year gap this time) things are coming to boil. Trion The Wild is scheming to take over the House of Wolves, Seta and family are creating a whole house of Bears, and the Ravens getting along. Meanwhile, in Iceland, Ineka learns of her real mother, and decides to come to the New World to stake her claim. This requires murder most foul.
All of this leads to battle, and big changes in Markland. I hope the fourth book comes out soon!
January 23, 2018
A great tale, well-told! I particularly admired the way all the different storylines were maintained and woven together at the end. The relevance of the title only became apparent right at the end. It was appropriate (just barely) in this book; but it may be that it will gain wider significance in the books to following. Felt quite bereft at the end when there were no more USV books to buy! Looking forward very much to the sequels.
October 20, 2017
A rollicking fast adventure story!
This is the third full length novel in the United States of Vinland series and the best of the trilogy in my opinion. The first novel is very good, but the second was a slow read for me. The third I am pleased to say was a hard to put down novel I read cover to cover in three days, highly recommended for fans of Viking adventure tales!
This is the third full length novel in the United States of Vinland series and the best of the trilogy in my opinion. The first novel is very good, but the second was a slow read for me. The third I am pleased to say was a hard to put down novel I read cover to cover in three days, highly recommended for fans of Viking adventure tales!
February 19, 2020
In this third book, successes in Markland have made interest grow back in Iceland to find glory, property, and wealth at the end of the Brine Road, the route to Markland that had been kept a close secret. Now two different factions are setting out to conquer and grow in Markland, while struggles between the Wolves and Ravens continue, complicated in some ways by the evolution of a third group, the Bears.
This saga plays out with a lot of interfamily struggles, and memories of dishonor that call for vengeance, but after hundreds of pages we are still only on the fringe of the New World when it cones to settlement and advancement of what might ne the United States of Vinland. I am a bit impatient to get to 19th and 20th century developments in this alternate history, as the title would encourage me to imagine, We seem to stay limited to several hundred years earlier so far.
This saga plays out with a lot of interfamily struggles, and memories of dishonor that call for vengeance, but after hundreds of pages we are still only on the fringe of the New World when it cones to settlement and advancement of what might ne the United States of Vinland. I am a bit impatient to get to 19th and 20th century developments in this alternate history, as the title would encourage me to imagine, We seem to stay limited to several hundred years earlier so far.
March 7, 2020
Last book. Lakelanders gets overthrown by one of its own. The ravens try to help but is too late.
Ravens: Elkins daughter and husband go off to explore and find Vinland. At the end they meet new arrivals, a ship that left Iceand with The Lady of the Hounds.
Ulluru is doin great. His wife fairBryn finally gets pregnant, but gets caught in a cave waiting out a storm and is killed by the intruders.
Baads son Brandt is married to Karyn. She was with fair Bryn in the cave and was kidnapped.
In the search for her the Wolves agree to help. Comes down to only one place she can be. AtTions. As things come down on Tion he decides it’s time to take over at Lakeland as Jarl. They march in and kills One-eye and his wife and now he’s the newJarl.
Ravens: Elkins daughter and husband go off to explore and find Vinland. At the end they meet new arrivals, a ship that left Iceand with The Lady of the Hounds.
Ulluru is doin great. His wife fairBryn finally gets pregnant, but gets caught in a cave waiting out a storm and is killed by the intruders.
Baads son Brandt is married to Karyn. She was with fair Bryn in the cave and was kidnapped.
In the search for her the Wolves agree to help. Comes down to only one place she can be. AtTions. As things come down on Tion he decides it’s time to take over at Lakeland as Jarl. They march in and kills One-eye and his wife and now he’s the newJarl.
July 24, 2024
The action to pages in the book ratio is quite low in this series.
This particular novel clocked in at over 600 pages, and yes there was some action, but there were many, many pages building up to the action.
As it was, the book is part 3 in a series, which at the end you discover there is a book #4 to be released, (and a book #5?) so the story doesn't wrap up, and pieces are still scattered across the board.
When I started the journey of the United States of Vinland, I was expecting an alt-history starting in 1000 AD up until present day. Instead I have read around 1000 pages, and have only covered the first 40 years of the norse settlement in North America. Not sure I have the stamina to last the distance...
This particular novel clocked in at over 600 pages, and yes there was some action, but there were many, many pages building up to the action.
As it was, the book is part 3 in a series, which at the end you discover there is a book #4 to be released, (and a book #5?) so the story doesn't wrap up, and pieces are still scattered across the board.
When I started the journey of the United States of Vinland, I was expecting an alt-history starting in 1000 AD up until present day. Instead I have read around 1000 pages, and have only covered the first 40 years of the norse settlement in North America. Not sure I have the stamina to last the distance...
April 10, 2018
This, the third in a series, starts much slower than earlier novels. Once it gets going however, the action is none stop. These are the stories of the Norse adventurers who founded the United States of Vinland. Yep, an alternate history, but much more detailed than most. Now I have to wait for the fourth book!
June 2, 2019
It was a really interesting story about factional competition among the Norse, and the tensions work the local populations. From the beginning, I was expecting an eventual potential 20th century version of Norse [America (?)]. While I was ultimately happy with the story, it was not what I was expecting going in.
This entire review has been hidden because of spoilers.
July 25, 2019
I enjoyed it, but at this pace I dispair of ever reading a tale of a more modern Norse/Amerind nation. How will the blending of these races affect an expansion into other tribal territories? Will this nation be an unknown, cut off from it's homeland, and a surprise to the Spanish and English colonists? Sooo many questions?
August 17, 2022
Loki's Rage
This book follows what I expected with a twist having Ilke take sides with Troyn. I thought she would at least meet up with her mother!
This book follows what I expected with a twist having Ilke take sides with Troyn. I thought she would at least meet up with her mother!
June 25, 2023
man the oars and eat the boars
Great ,almost, finish to the saga but where is the 4th book? Huh still a great read with good suppositions
Great ,almost, finish to the saga but where is the 4th book? Huh still a great read with good suppositions
March 9, 2017
Loki's Rage is another great instalment in the United States of Vinland series by Colin Taber.
This series is characterised by originality in story-concept, fast-paced action, and the promise of much more to come as the settlement grows.
New readers to the series are fortunate to have three books already published, with future books never too far away.
This series is characterised by originality in story-concept, fast-paced action, and the promise of much more to come as the settlement grows.
New readers to the series are fortunate to have three books already published, with future books never too far away.
February 14, 2016
This book was supposed to be released June 2015, and it was - on Apple Ibooks ONLY!
It has not yet been released in ANY OTHER format. Obviously Colin does not care about the series anymore or if anyone reads his books, if he is only going to release them thru apple.
I refuse to be forced to support Apple. Release it in epub format that anyone can read.
It has not yet been released in ANY OTHER format. Obviously Colin does not care about the series anymore or if anyone reads his books, if he is only going to release them thru apple.
I refuse to be forced to support Apple. Release it in epub format that anyone can read.
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