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The Angles
“The Angles” is the prequel of that trilogy and tells of Cutha’s father, Saebald, and his involvement with an Anglian warband that was sent to assist Alaric, King of the Goths, in his disputes with the treacherous Romans; disputes that led to his second sacking of Rome. This is a very important event, and a curious one in that the Visigoths were Christians, albeit of the Arian varietyAs a result they did not want to be seen in a bad light by the Christians of Rome. This is where the pagan Angles come in handy! A very interesting and complex time with very involved events, yet neglected by historical fiction writers (if you know of any good titles, please tell me). This is what makes this book so interesting and rather unique.
215 pages, Paperback
Published January 1, 2022
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February 24, 2022
As before, with this author's books, I must make a disclaimer: if you go to the end of the book you will see that the author, Peter Dady, acknowledges my novel, “Woden’s Wolf” and that, after reading it, he contacted me for advice and that I read, advised, encouraged and did a rough edit of the book at no charge.
In addition to doing a rough edit of his manuscript I made some suggestions, the main being that a manuscript that would translate into an A5 book of almost 1700 pages would be difficult to sell as the size alone would deter most readers. Peter took this on board with the result that the first part of the story, that of the father of his main a character, Cutha, and the father’s part in the sack of Rome by the Goths was taken out and the remaining, and main story, that of the Anglian settlement in England, was turned into a trilogy, “Cutha – Anglian Warband Warrior”, “Lord Cutha – Leader of the Anglian Warbands”, “Icel’s Kingdom of Middle Anglia”; reviews of which are on Goodreads.
“The Angles” is the prequel of that trilogy and tells of Cutha’s father, Saebald, and his involvement with an Anglian warband that was sent to assist Alaric, King of the Goths, in his disputes with the treacherous Romans; disputes that led to his second sacking of Rome. This is a very important event, and a curious one in that the Visigoths were Christians, albeit of the Arian variety (
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gothic_... ). As a result they did not want to be seen in a bad light by the Christians of Rome. This is where the pagan Angles come in handy! A very interesting and complex time with very involved events, yet neglected by historical fiction writers (if you know of any good titles, please tell me). This is what makes this book so interesting and rather unique.
The author’s style can, at times, seem like a history lecture, indeed the first 16 pages are in fact a succinct synopsis of Germanic events leading up to the start of the story and the final 13 pages are a picturesque fictional tale of how to build a period farmhouse. But, given the lack of knowledge of the period by the general populous, this is not a bad thing.
The story runs along well and, if it were not for some essential work, I would have finished it in two days.
One thing though, it should be R16 both from language and some adult content. Peter Dady is a retired Doctor of Medicine and this shews in some of his descriptions.
If you read Dady’s trilogy on the Anglian settlement then you should also read this. You can read it as a primer or, you can read it as a conclusion. I enjoyed it, and I am sure you would do too.
In addition to doing a rough edit of his manuscript I made some suggestions, the main being that a manuscript that would translate into an A5 book of almost 1700 pages would be difficult to sell as the size alone would deter most readers. Peter took this on board with the result that the first part of the story, that of the father of his main a character, Cutha, and the father’s part in the sack of Rome by the Goths was taken out and the remaining, and main story, that of the Anglian settlement in England, was turned into a trilogy, “Cutha – Anglian Warband Warrior”, “Lord Cutha – Leader of the Anglian Warbands”, “Icel’s Kingdom of Middle Anglia”; reviews of which are on Goodreads.
“The Angles” is the prequel of that trilogy and tells of Cutha’s father, Saebald, and his involvement with an Anglian warband that was sent to assist Alaric, King of the Goths, in his disputes with the treacherous Romans; disputes that led to his second sacking of Rome. This is a very important event, and a curious one in that the Visigoths were Christians, albeit of the Arian variety (
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gothic_... ). As a result they did not want to be seen in a bad light by the Christians of Rome. This is where the pagan Angles come in handy! A very interesting and complex time with very involved events, yet neglected by historical fiction writers (if you know of any good titles, please tell me). This is what makes this book so interesting and rather unique.
The author’s style can, at times, seem like a history lecture, indeed the first 16 pages are in fact a succinct synopsis of Germanic events leading up to the start of the story and the final 13 pages are a picturesque fictional tale of how to build a period farmhouse. But, given the lack of knowledge of the period by the general populous, this is not a bad thing.
The story runs along well and, if it were not for some essential work, I would have finished it in two days.
One thing though, it should be R16 both from language and some adult content. Peter Dady is a retired Doctor of Medicine and this shews in some of his descriptions.
If you read Dady’s trilogy on the Anglian settlement then you should also read this. You can read it as a primer or, you can read it as a conclusion. I enjoyed it, and I am sure you would do too.
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