If you want a thoughtful look modern issues while looking into the past, this will be your jam.

If you want big dumb dudes in shiny metal hitting eachother with sticks on horseback, this isn't for you. TLDR, it's not what you're expecting, it's better. We might get a France every now and again, but this is an incredibly well written book about medieval SWEDEN. Even Christian Cameron had to make his protagonists English, even though theyre barely in England. Vikings, English Archers, English Knights. Arn is also discovered to be ambidextrous. He grows up in a monastery belonging to the Cistercians and is trained there in archery, swordsmanship and horsemanship by a former Knight Templar, the brother Guilbert. Murray from Waterstones today Click and Collect from your local Waterstones or get FREE UK delivery on orders over £25. The epic story of one man’s fight for his love, his God and his Country The Road to Jerusalem - Book 1 in the Crusades Trilogy. I'm an American who knows more about Crecy than Gettysburg because historical fiction writers(and consumers, I imagine) only seem care about English history. Arn Magnusson is a son of the powerful Folkung dynasty in the mid-12th century. Buy The Road to Jerusalem by Jan Guillou, Steven T. And most importantly ITS NOT ABOUT ENGLAND. 'They don't even get to Jerusalem til the end!', to which I answer: the book is called 'the ROAD TO JERUSALEM and not 'WE GOT TO JERUSALEM EARLY' That person sold me a book. I believe somebody was complaining on here about a 'misleading title'.

Returning home, Arn finds his monastic habits at odds with his clans old and tested ways. I never realized how universally atheist new books are becoming, and having just a good guy priest, not a former badass(there is one of these, though), not secretly working against the protagonist, or whatever trope that's going around, is ironically refreshing. Observing the boys extraordinary talent with horse, sword, and bow, Father Henri, trusting in Gods will, sends his charge into the world to fulfill a destiny that lies beyond the cloister walls.

It's a very positive and more importantly to me NOT PREACHY view into Christian philosophy, at least thats how I see it. Went looking for trashy historical fiction.Īnd I got this.