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The Knights Dawning (The Crusades Series Book 1) (English Edition) Formato Kindle

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13th century England: The nobility is aligning against King John in a struggle for power. The kingdom is embroiled in war and bankrupt, and the Crusades are rampaging through the Middle East. The Dawnings are a once-powerful family of English knights who are facing the bleak prospects of their declining power and imminent destruction at the hands of enemies that surround them both at home and abroad.

The first book in the Crusades series, The Knights Dawning, sets the stage for a titanic struggle for survival that could consume a family, a people, and a kingdom. The epic battles and action-packed scenes are coupled with deep characters and complex relationships that give the story a depth beyond ordinary adventure novels. Join the Dawnings as they feud over power, love, jealousies, and old grudges that threaten to destroy the family from within at the moment they most need to stand united.

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ASIN ‏ : ‎ B0066CBG9A
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ilbob

an enjoyable read with some minor issues

Recensito negli Stati Uniti il 29 aprile 2012

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First off a major gripe that has nothing to do with the book itself. It appears the author has engaged in a very ham handed attempt at self promotion. At the time of this review there are 8 reviews, all 4 and 5 star. I don't actually have a problem with the 4 and 5 stars given the book as it is that good. However, two of the reviews were written by people with the same uncommon last name as the author, and of the 8 reviews, IIRC, all but one were their first book review. Very suspicious. And in this case there is no reason for it. The book is good enough on its own not to need the chicanery that often goes into the review system for self published books. So I would urge people seeing the suspicious nature of those reviews to overlook it. Quite frankly, I look at the reviews pretty closely before actually buying a book, and the pattern here would have turned me off. As a free book, I can just download it and toss it aside if it turns out to be bad (which happens to most of the free books I download), but when I spend actual money I look a little closer. For a $10 book, I am going to look REAL close.

I got the book for free off a Kindle free book list I subscribe to. That price has since been set to $9.99. I think that is pushing it for a self published book from an unknown author. In fact, while I liked the book, I just would not have paid that much for it up front. I might not be willing to pay that for the sequel, but I have to admit I have been hooked so I may well have to. :)

I noticed a few writing errors (grammar, spelling, etc.) here and there, but they are not frequent enough to get in the way of the story as often happens with self published authors.

I was not real thrilled with the way the book used flashbacks to fill in the story. The author did do a good job of making the flashbacks consistent with the rest of the story, so I never found them confusing. I just thought there were too many of them more than anything else.

The characters are consistent, believable, and well formed. The characters in this book are not saints. They have major character flaws that get in the way. A couple of the female characters are portrayed as too good to be true to me, but you never know how they will turn out as we learn more about them in future sequels.

This is historical fiction set in 12th century England telling the story of the Dawning barony. The author's synopsis of the book is pretty good so I won't try and improve on it. I don't know how historically accurate the portrayal of chivalry is. I enjoy reading books about this period of time, and from what I have read it appears to me that chivalry was as often as not discarded when it was inconvenient.

I don't know if there were Moors in England in the 12th century serving as trusted servants to the nobles who were sending their knights to the middle east to attempt to recapture the holy land from Islam. This seems like an incredibly bad idea from an opsec perspective, but it may have been the case. A lot of the nobles really were the nutty control freaks this book portrays them as being, and may well have believed no mere servant would dare cross them.

I am also not convinced there were any orientals in 12th century England giving away Samurai swords and teaching karate-like fighting techniques.

The time line in the books seems a little off to me as well. It seemed like the rescue journey to the middle east was way too quick to have happened as the book portrays. And the idea that the knights could load up a few pack horses with enough supplies to last them all the way to the holy land and back is just silly. They are going to have to resupply multiple times along the way both directions.

But, this is fiction, and good fiction at that, so I consider these to be minor quibbles. A book does not have to be perfect for me to enjoy it. And I did.

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M. J. Fouch

Bit of a feeble effort

Recensito nel Regno Unito il 31 ottobre 2013

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I should start with the disclaimer that I didn't finish this book so I can only claim this as a review of the first quarter of it.

It's a bit disconcerting when a historical novel begins with an Authors's Note admitting he's played fast and loose with historical facts in order to have them fit in better with his story. I probably should have taken that as my warning, but as I don't know a great deal about the period in question I decided not to let it put me off.

As it was I nearly gave up in the first half dozen chapters anyway when the story seemed to consist of nothing more than a succession of battles, each involving a different character with no discernible link to the ones in the other chapters.

To be fair the links became apparent as the book progressed, and I made up my mind I'd stick with it, but in the end there was just too much wrong with the book to persist and eventually I gave up.

Bluntly, it's just not very well written.

There are passages of dialogue where two characters explain historical events or events in their own shared past to each other, despite the fact they both lived through them so why on earth would either of them need to have them explained ? Well, obviously so that they can thereby be explained to the reader, but a skilled writer can find far less clumsy and stilted ways of doing that.

As far as the dialogue goes, I don't mind modern language in a historical story if, as is the case here, the historical period is long enough ago that it would be impossible to use the language of the time and still make it understandable.

However, the problem with the dialogue here is that you'll have a character addressing another in flowery language reminiscent of some-one trying to fake a Victorian novel, and then a few pages later the same character is using completely modern idiom. I think the author really needed to pick a style of dialogue and stick with it.

Also, I'm not entirely sure I have this right (and even if I have perhaps there's a plausible explanation of it in the portion of the book I didn't read) but we seem to have a Japanese martial artist or at least some-one familiar with Japanese martial arts shoe-horned into the story to train one of the characters. It's not entirely outside the realms of possibility that some-one from Japan might have been living here during the middle ages I suppose, but it does seem hugely unlikely and a bit of a daft plot device used chiefly so that one of the characters can wave a katana around.

Maybe I was unduly influenced by the Author's Note, but the writer seemed to have very little real interest in or affection for the period of history in which the book is set, and to have just settled on it as a nice dramatic backdrop for the story he wanted to tell. That doesn't make for a good historical novel in my view.

And I admit this is a quibble as I doubt it would have bothered me if the story had been better written, but a bit of proof-reading wouldn't have gone amiss. There are several little mis-spellings that jar and make the book seem a bit unprofessional.

Anyway, as I mentioned at the beginning I didn't stick with the novel all the way through - for all I know it may vastly improve in the last three quarters - and it's not awful. It's just not very good and I think if you're being asked to pay over a fiver for it (I downloaded it while it was temporarily a freebie so I've no complaints on that score) you deserve something better than not very good.

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M. Gallaher

An intricate tale ...

Recensito negli Stati Uniti il 10 marzo 2013

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I got this ebook while being offered free and found it a good read. Rather an intricate tale, unfolding in time by means of numerous flashbacks most of which can be easily identified as being such because they are in italics. Toward the end of the book, though, the flashbacks are NOT put into italics, which I hope is an editing error rather than deliberate. Unlike a previous reviewer I did find all these flashbacks sometimes confusing, though I would not necessarily change them or eliminate any. The reader simply must resign him or herself to the necessity of investing a little effort to figure out what is going on when and to/with whom. On the whole the book is well-written and the story is interesting, every bit as much a psychological drama as an action adventure. I am particularly intrigued by the hints of redemptive transformation that have occurred and would enjoy seeing how the author goes about unfolding those developments.

Not sure how accurate some of the historical details are but I found them interesting enough to want to do a little research to confirm or refute, for example, the device of having Muslim infiltration of English feudal life. The book definitely ends with a cliff hanger situation, so if the reader has become involved at all with the characters and story he or she will want to read the next book. Whether I personally will be willing to pay $10 for that privilege is another matter. I read free classics on my kindle, mostly, when not checking out the new titles offered at no cost. But once in a while I will ... though if I like a book enough to pay for it I will generally prefer to get a "real" copy, if available, so that I can lend it afterwards to others.

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Mr. Graham M. Payne

Pleasnt historical romp

Recensito nel Regno Unito il 22 giugno 2012

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I have to agree with other reviewers about the skipping in place and time of the story. I have no issue with this but a simple chapter heading would help focus the readers attention. How about "Central England 1150" or "Damascus, Summer 1175". I did find some of the language used by the characters way to modern, I do not expect "....forsooth verily good Sir knight but doest that not knoweth the trials of battle lie heavily upon thine brow..." but "...yep all that fighting has made you paranoid" is equally off putting. It is s criticism I have made of several recent books from America of the Medieval period. In my minds eye keep seeing them as Conneticut Yankies in the Court of King Arthur.

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Fivebeans

Inaccuracies abound

Recensito negli Stati Uniti il 2 ottobre 2013

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The author tells how he reordered a few historical events to fit the story - fair enough, but the whole story revolves around a knight, trained by a Japanese martial arts expert over a century before Marco Polo reached China. He even had paper walls and tatami floors, something not found in Europe for hundreds of years. I found the discussion between two knights about possums and sloths amusing as those animals come from Australasia and the Americas. The Islamic plot in 12th century England is interesting, but how two house servants, from opposing Baronies, arranged clandestine meetings in the night when they would be living many miles apart and with no access to horses is beyond my understanding. Perhaps they jumped on their mopeds. There were more inconsistencies, but enough said.

Having said all of that, even though I thought of giving up more than once, I did read the book to the end, hence the three stars.

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