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After Whorl: Bran Reborn (# 2, Celtic Fervour Series)

Nancy Jardine (Goodreads Author)

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RAVAGED BY WAR ...AD 71. After the battle at Whorl, Brennus of Garrigill is irrevocably changed. Returning to Marske, Ineda finds her grandmother dead, though Brennus is not. Snared by a Roman patrol, they are marched to Witton where he is forced to labour for the Roman IX Legion. Embracing his new identity as Bran, Brennus vows to avert Roman occupation of northernmost Br ...more

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Published November 26th 2013 by Crooked Cat Publishing Ltd

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Nov 05, 2019 Lana لانا (Bibliomedico) rated it really liked it

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I've always thought the writing process of the second book of the series must be really diff ...more

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Nov 05, 2019 Kati rated it really liked it · review of another edition

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*** I received this book by Rachel Random Resources Tour in exchange for an honest review, thank you so much to Rachel and Crooked Cat Publishing for the opportunity to read and review After Whorl: Bran Reborn! ***

OMGosh! I so love and enjoy the Celtic Fervour series and the world so much I just can not tell you how much I miss the characters in this series so much. That I couldn't wait to dive in and read the sequel After Whorl: Bran Reborn next which we find out what happens to Brennus of Garr *** I received this book by Rachel Random Resources Tour in exchange for an honest review, thank you so much to Rachel and Crooked Cat Publishing for the opportunity to read and review After Whorl: Bran Reborn! ***

OMGosh! I so love and enjoy the Celtic Fervour series and the world so much I just can not tell you how much I miss the characters in this series so much. That I couldn't wait to dive in and read the sequel After Whorl: Bran Reborn next which we find out what happens to Brennus of Garrigill Lorcan little brother who was introduced in The Beltane Choice and what happens to him after the war of Whorl. I can keep on gushing to you on how much I loved and enjoyed this amazing sequel so much, that I actually read this book in one sitting I couldn't put this book down at all I had to finish reading this book in one day. Ohh my what an emotional ride was reading After Whorl: Bran Reborn was for me.

We do get introduced to new characters in this book who Brennus meet, but first, let me start from the very beginning. At the very beginning of After Whorl: Bran Reborn Brennus was in the middle of the war of whorl attacking the Romans but a terrible and freak accident occurs that almost cost Brennus life and that left him a changed and damaged man forever. But a certain motherly healer Meaghan safe his life and told him she saved him for a reason. When Brennus fully awake from his series injurious he knows he couldn't be a warrior champion and fight anymore because of his damaged body.

But the healer Meaghan told him she saved him for a purpose and that he should not give up to fight the Romans, and that's when Brennus change his name Bran to start a new journey in his life. But things start to change when Meaghan the healer dies and he meets Meaghan's young and very strong and hardheaded granddaughter Ineda. That's when everything changes for Bran and his new life starts to unravel in front of his eyes. Now there is romance in this book but it was not the sole focus in this book. I love reading books that romance was not the sole focus of the book. Also, the romance was a slow burn romance where one of the main characters was waiting for there love interest to grow more mature in life and I so love reading their romance grow in each step.

Now I won't say which main characters fall in love because spoiler but I think reading the synopsis you all will figure out who the two love interests are. All and all I loved and enjoyed reading After Whorl: Bran Reborn that I can't wait to read the third book After Whorl: Donning Double Cloaks after that cliffhanger ending I have to see what happens next! ...more

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Oct 26, 2019 Stephanie Jane rated it really liked it · review of another edition

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After Whorl: Bran Reborn is the second novel in Nancy Jardine's Celtic Fervour quartet and it follows swiftly on from The Beltane Choice which I read and reviewed in September. I would recommend that the books be read in order because I think I got a lot more depth from After Whorl: Bran Reborn having already met various characters in the first book. That said, Jardine takes the brave step of setting this second book in different locations to ...more

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Dec 16, 2013 Mark Patton rated it it was amazing

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The second part of a trilogy is perhaps the most difficult to write. The author has already introduced some of the key themes in the first part (prominent among the themes of The Beltane Choice was the conflict between the Brigantes tribe of northern England and the advancing legions of Rome in 71 AD), and almost certainly has in mind a final resolution in the third part, but does not want to give the game away in the second.

In After Whorl, Bran Reborn, we are still in 71 AD, and conflict betwe The second part of a trilogy is perhaps the most difficult to write. The author has already introduced some of the key themes in the first part (prominent among the themes of The Beltane Choice was the conflict between the Brigantes tribe of northern England and the advancing legions of Rome in 71 AD), and almost certainly has in mind a final resolution in the third part, but does not want to give the game away in the second.

In After Whorl, Bran Reborn, we are still in 71 AD, and conflict between Romans and Britons remains at the heart of the story, but Nancy Jardine meets the challenge of the second volume by flipping viewpoints. Nara and Lorcan, the lovers at the centre of The Beltane Choice, appear only as minor characters in the current volume. Instead the focus is on Lorcan’s brother, Brennus. His story, here, is very much a meditation on the theme of defeat, and on the possibility of resilience in the face of it. The “Whorl” of the title is a battle (a fictional one, since the military campaigns of the Roman Governor Cerialis against the Brigantes are documented only in the vaguest sense), a battle which the Britons have lost, and in which Brennus has been badly maimed. His people’s freedom is forfeit, and his own world falls apart when a stranger arrives with unwelcome news. Potentially the star attraction as a captive in a Roman Triumph, he adopts a new and humbler identity, Bran. His whole life has been lived as a warrior, but now he is totally dependent on the elderly healer, Meaghan, who tends his wounds. She, in turn, becomes dependent on him, but he is ill prepared for this role. The book charts his struggle to reassert his identity, and to find a new role in life, assisted by Meaghan’s teenage daughter, Ineda.

Nancy Jardine has done a superb job in creating such a vivid and believable story against a background in which neither history nor archaeology provides much solid material to work with. As in The Beltane Choice, historical figures such as Governor Cerialis and the Brigantian king, Venutius, remain in the shadows, the light shining instead on the hopes and fears of ordinary people; the work itself, a triumph of narrative clarity over historical obscurity.
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Mar 02, 2014 Grace Elliot rated it it was amazing

After Whorl: Bran Reborn, continues the momentous events started in The Beltane Choice with the Roman invasion of Britain as the native inhabitants struggle to preserve their way of life.
The Brigantes are a proud race and many prefer death to subjugation by the Roman invaders. The story starts with one of their brave warriors near fatally wounded, nursed back to health by a healer. Ashamed of his ruined body and with his strength is gone, in his new life Bran accepts the label of being simple a ...more

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Dec 02, 2019 Jessica Belmont rated it it was amazing

Nancy Jardine’s After Whorl: Bran Reborn is the second in the series but I read it as a standalone. A fabulous novel that depicts the efforts of the Celtics to drive the Roman invaders out. I’m obsessed with this plot and determined to read book 1 now.

The characters are realistic. So realistic, I found myself very concerned for their lives. I was invested in their romances and worried that something would happen to them. I’m still thinking about them!

Nancy Jardine’s writing is epic. She describe ...more

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Oct 29, 2019 Lynn (Ellesea Loves Reading) rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

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This second book picks up after the battle of Whorl. Brannus of Garrigill is a long way from home and presumed dead. Badly injured he's nursed back to health by an old woman called Meaghan. Meanwhile, Nara is now free from her betrothal to follow her heart and into the arms of his brother, Lorcan.

With the focus of this book on Brannus, I was a little sad because I really enjoyed getting to know Lorcan and Nara in The Beltane Choice. However, Bran is such a lovely gentle giant of a man so I quic ...more

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Jul 17, 2017 Helen Hollick rated it it was amazing

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Nov 02, 2019 Hanne (TheBookReader) rated it really liked it · review of another edition

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Mar 05, 2016 Miriam Drori rated it it was amazing

Nancy Jardine manages to make ancient history interesting and relevant for twenty-first-century readers. The characters in her Celtic Fervour trilogy don't have telephones or any of our means of communication. They have to travel huge distances to pass on information to scattered settlements. But inside, they're just like us, with emotions and feelings we can identify with.

We can understand the moods of Brennus, who is reborn as Bran. We can also appreciate the thoughts and actions of the youthf ...more

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Jul 21, 2014 Susan rated it liked it

Enjoyable novel in a very interesting and
well-described time of history. There was,
perhaps, a bit more detail than I would have
chosen, but overall it is nicely done.

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Feb 16, 2020 Michelle Whitham (curled_up_with_a_good_book) rated it really liked it

n this instalment we’re with Brennus after a near-fatal wounding at the Battle of Whorl. But he didn’t die – and with a wonderful old healer taking care of him, he survives. But when he comes round he struggles to tell her his name, and is renamed Bran…..a name he decides to stick with ‘Bran the Broken’ as he can no longer be the fierce warrior he once was.

He meets the granddaughter of his healer, and ends up returning to the village the tribes are living in, under the rule of the Romans. Althou ...more

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Nov 10, 2019 Christie72 rated it really liked it

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After Whorl: Bran Reborn is the follow-up to the Beltane Choice. It opens up directly after Beltane with a fierce battle with the Romans. The hero of the story is Brennus, a Celt warrior, who is gravely injured in a battle.

The heroine, Ineda, is a young girl who has inherited the gift of healing from her grandmother, Meaghan. Her aunts have been killed, and now it is only her, her father, and her grandmother left. Her grandmother informs her that not only does she have her gift, but she will ha ...more

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Mar 10, 2014 Orion Diaram rated it it was amazing

Wow!
This wonderful author did it again, captivating me in this wonderful and magical adventure from the first word, right to the very end.
This book is about Brennus, the Brother of Lorgan, who everyone thought was dead, but survived terrible injuries, thanks to an old healer called Meaghan, that not only heals him but shows him how to adapt to his disabilities and fight on.
The old Brennus has now been reborn, as Bran is no longer a warrior and half the man he used to be.
In this book you experien ...more

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Feb 12, 2014 Felicia rated it really liked it

This book was a continuation in the Celtic Fervour Series and I like it overall. I thought the rebirth of Bran was a realistic and made sense. I think there was a little too much information when it came to the Roman troop movements and strategies. I thought the life of the Celts was well done. I also liked the growth of Bran and Ineda as they dealt with their experiences. The book left us with a cliffhanger and I am excited to read the next book!

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