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This didn't pull together the way I expected at all. I expected Lucilla to have a bigger part to play, and for Beric to find out about his real parents somehow, and... just for him to find a neat space just made for him where he would belong. But it's better the way Sutcliff wrote it, of course, with Beric struggling so much and eventually, and with difficulty, finding a place to belong. Not a place that's been waiting for him, but a place he's made for himself.
I found it a difficult read, at fi ...more
I found it a difficult read, at fi ...more
This one definitely isn't going to be my favorite Sutcliff book, but it's an interesting read nonetheless. (And, hey, the ebook even has illustrations!)
It's the story of Beric, a shipwrecked Roman infant raised in a British tribe, later cast out, sold into slavery, sentenced into even worse slavery, and the list goes on from there. Approximately three-quarters of the book is an unending stream of Beric's miserable life, occasionally broken by the usual Sutcliff nature descriptions and brief glim ...more
It's the story of Beric, a shipwrecked Roman infant raised in a British tribe, later cast out, sold into slavery, sentenced into even worse slavery, and the list goes on from there. Approximately three-quarters of the book is an unending stream of Beric's miserable life, occasionally broken by the usual Sutcliff nature descriptions and brief glim ...more
Jun 09, 2011
Oreotalpa
marked it as to-read
