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TET: Part One - Prologue, The Dying Lord, 1-3
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Having it start with Uthred, son of Uthred scared me for a bit! It also gave me some insight into how he may be planning on continuing the series.And it sounds like OUR Uthred is not doing well. But wow, isn't his daughter great!?
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That's exactly what I was thinking too.
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Already she makes better plans than her father. I loved her comment about hiding her religion and how Uhtred is too loud about it.
Yes! She was clever plus bloodthirsty. I hope to see more of her.
Seems as though Uhtred is back to his old self again. I'm enjoying both his son and daughter at this point. Uhtred the son has obviously been training.
I must admit, i was a little worried when i started listening to the book. Were we to have everything from a different viewpoint? I see this series as Uthreds story, and do not particually need to it be continued from someone else (write another series if that is required).However, we soon went back to the Uthred of the series.
Uthred has a serious injury and in pain a lot. In earlier books he stated he was young and foolish and always ready for a fight - could this be the cause of him becoming more wise? Only time will tell.
Liked Stiorra. A strong character in my opinion which could lead to some interesting stories.
Uhtred, son of Uhtred beginning this story and then getting all the family relations wrong confused the hell out of me until I realised it's the son who's talking. And then I was really worried it would go on in that fashion, but thank god it didn't. Throughout the episode of the Witan in Gleawecestre our Uhtred was pretending to be dying, but he leaves us in no doubt that he is poorly. I wonder how much fighting he will manage in this installment, or if the POV will change to Uhtred the Younger for that.
I was thrown off by the POV swap at the first too!And yes OUR Uhtred seems poorly for sure.
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