Saxon Five

While I waited for my holds to suddenly all come in all at once, I found the next book in the Bernard Cornwell Saxon Stories series. The good thing about these books is that the later entries in the series tend to have no wait. I can just click Borrow instead of clicking Place Hold and waiting for weeks. So, they're my backup reads. I finish something, then while waiting for the holds to appear, I grab a Saxon Story and start listening.

That's what I did with this one, book five, The Burning Land.

Of course, I got a few hours in, and then all my holds starting becoming available on me, so I had to put the pedal to the medal and finish it before it was too late to check them out. I probably listened to the whole book, all eleven hours, in about three days. I've discovered that I can listen in a web browser as well, so I played it while editing on the news at work too, only pausing when I had to listen to sound from a bite or a package.

This book was right there with the rest of them. It's a great series and Cornwell is a great writer. He's really good with telling a tale of war and suffering filled with palace intrigue and great heroes and villains. This one wasn't the best in the series but it wasn't anywhere close to the worst either. There's still eight more books to go, and I'm looking forward to each new edition as I go. They are fun. 

That's my verdict, and I'll be moving on to the next one soon. Well, not that soon. The Rhythm of War is the book that came through on the holds this time, and that one is 57 hours long, so it's like listening to the first five of these Saxon Tales books. I guess it'll be a while before I'm in need of a book that will let me just click the Borrow button instead of the Place Hold button again.