And better allows one to understand the elements which go into building the man that he is becoming.Ī fact which goes a long way in helping the reader to maintain focus on Hastings when the fighting and politicing aspects of the plot seem to want to swallow all else later in the read.
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Allows readers a full and detailed picture of Hasting's life as a whole. Adrien's ability to seamlessly transition readers through day to day minutia to important battles and other life occurrences in the life of his story's main character. As seen through experiences of one Hastings.
Is one that is filled with war, politics, maturation, and love. before he was famous! "The Lords Of The Wind" is for the loyal historical fiction Viking fan!! NO OATH BREAKERS!!!
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One day French TV will discover his novels and make a series out of them and I shall brag I knew C.J.
Adrien takes you places other writers have not yet gone. Adrien’s next book as Hasting and Bjorn set off and sail together into the next exciting spine tingling adventure! By the GODS this book is right up there shoulder to should in the shield wall of ALL the great au-thors of Viking historical fiction ever writen over the past decade and beyond. I very much enjoyed reading his first book, but now his second sojourn into Viking historical fiction titled "The Lords Of The Wind" filled my sail with a Viking's machismo and a lust for adventure into the unknown rowing around the rivers bend not knowing what awaits "Hasting" and his crew but knowing whatever or whoever they may encounter will find out way too late that they should have ran for their lives! Hastings meets Bjorn Ironsides in this wonderful adventure and by the books end one is left with a salivating desire to tear into C.J. Adrien au-thor of "The Line Of His People" online and we struck up a friendship. MY name is Thorn Boarhardsson and back when I belonged to a guild of Viking reenactors out of Stockton, CA know as the "Dark Boars" I met C.J. Adrien on an adventure that explores the coming of age of the Viking Hasting, his first love, his first great trials, and his first betrayal. His is a story of a boy who was a slave, who became a warlord, and who helped topple an empire.Ī supposed son of Ragnar Lodbrok, and referred to in the Gesta Normanorum as the Scourge of the Somme and Loire, his life exemplified the qualities of the ideal Viking. A ship arrived at his master's longphort carrying a man who would alter the course of his destiny, and take him under his wing to teach him the ways of the Vikings. Orphaned as a child by a blood-feud, and sold as a slave to an exiled chieftain in Ireland, the boy Hasting had little hope of surviving to adulthood. Treasonous and oath-breaking, they were deservedly condemned unbelievers and faithless, they were justly punished.” “For indeed the Frankish nation, which was crushed by the avenger Hasting, was full of filthy uncleanness.
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