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456 pages, Paperback
Published January 1, 2017
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Martin Jensen
72 books65 followersMartin Jensen debuterede i 1998 ned den historiske roman "Frit gennem Jylland", som er genudgivet i 2011.
Han modtog i 2009 Edvard Pedersens Biblioteksfonds Forfatterpris og Det Danske Kriminalakademis hæderspris for 7-bindsserien om byfoged Eske Litle og Assens i 1300-tallet.
Han har desuden skrevet fem samtidsromaner og de historiske romaner Soldaterhoren, Tømrerens datter og Ravneflugt.
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Bestselling Danish novelist Martin Jensen was born in 1946 into a working-class family and worked as a teacher and a headmaster in Sweden and Denmark before becoming a full-time author in 1996. He and his wife collect mushrooms, enjoy bird watching, and are botany enthusiasts. Martin Jensen is the author of twenty-one novels. The King's Hounds is his first title to be published in English.
Han modtog i 2009 Edvard Pedersens Biblioteksfonds Forfatterpris og Det Danske Kriminalakademis hæderspris for 7-bindsserien om byfoged Eske Litle og Assens i 1300-tallet.
Han har desuden skrevet fem samtidsromaner og de historiske romaner Soldaterhoren, Tømrerens datter og Ravneflugt.
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Bestselling Danish novelist Martin Jensen was born in 1946 into a working-class family and worked as a teacher and a headmaster in Sweden and Denmark before becoming a full-time author in 1996. He and his wife collect mushrooms, enjoy bird watching, and are botany enthusiasts. Martin Jensen is the author of twenty-one novels. The King's Hounds is his first title to be published in English.
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February 18, 2018
I must admit that this book disappointed me a bit.
It's well-written in the sense that Martin Jensen is very skilled at vividly painting the medieval world. It's not that. It's... it is a sequel to the murder mystery series about Halfdan and Winston, wherein Winston became more and more of a minor character. A process that has continued in this book to the point where Winston just has a few tiny appearances.
The problem is that Halfdan doesn't feel like the protagonist either. He's the POV character, true, and through his eyes we follow the political machinations in England from the death of Cnut the Great to the arrival of William the Conqueror - and Halfdan, at this point in his story, is conveniently placed close enough to those in power to observe it, while he is small enough to not actually have any real influence himself. And that just - you could remove Halfdan and what little time is spent on his personal life and family - and you'd still have the book. The more I read the less invested I was, sorry to say.
I mean, the murder mysteries still had the political machinations, but they were in the background, while Halfdan's gradually learning and growing and finding himself was in the foreground. Now it's swapped around and it just didn't work for me.
It's well-written in the sense that Martin Jensen is very skilled at vividly painting the medieval world. It's not that. It's... it is a sequel to the murder mystery series about Halfdan and Winston, wherein Winston became more and more of a minor character. A process that has continued in this book to the point where Winston just has a few tiny appearances.
The problem is that Halfdan doesn't feel like the protagonist either. He's the POV character, true, and through his eyes we follow the political machinations in England from the death of Cnut the Great to the arrival of William the Conqueror - and Halfdan, at this point in his story, is conveniently placed close enough to those in power to observe it, while he is small enough to not actually have any real influence himself. And that just - you could remove Halfdan and what little time is spent on his personal life and family - and you'd still have the book. The more I read the less invested I was, sorry to say.
I mean, the murder mysteries still had the political machinations, but they were in the background, while Halfdan's gradually learning and growing and finding himself was in the foreground. Now it's swapped around and it just didn't work for me.
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