War of the Wolf (The Last Kingdom #11) -

Bernard Cornwell

HarperCollins

2019

352 páginas

11h 44m

ISBN-13: 9780008183868

Bernard Cornwell’s epic story of the making of England continues in this eleventh installment in the bestselling Saxon Tales series—"like Game of Thrones, but real" (The Observer)—the basis of the hit Netflix television series The Last Kingdom.

His blood is Saxon
His heart is Viking
His battleground is England

"Perhaps the greatest writer of historical adventure novels today" (Washington Post), Bernard Cornwell has dazzled and entertained readers and critics with his page-turning bestsellers. Of all his protagonists, however, none is as beloved as Uhtred of Bebbanburg.

And while Uhtred might have regained his family’s fortress, it seems that a peaceful life is not to be – as he is under threat from both an old enemy and a new foe. The old enemy comes from Wessex where a dynastic struggle will determine who will be the next king. And the new foe is Sköll, a Norseman, whose ambition is to be King of Northumbria and who leads a frightening army of wolf-warriors, men who fight half-crazed in the belief that they are indeed wolves. Uhtred, believing he is cursed, must fend off one enemy while he tries to destroy the other. In this new chapter of the Saxon Tales series—a rousing adventure of courage, treachery, duty, devotion, majesty, love and battle, as seen through the eyes of a warrior straddling two worlds—

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O Lobo......

No volume A Guerra do Lobo, vemos Uhtred envelhecido, mas ainda cheio de sagacidade e astúcia. A Inglaterra está quase totalmente unificada, faltando apenas a conquista da Nortúmbria. A narrativa é marcada por batalhas épicas, entremeadas por um humor certeiro, onde Ieremias se destaca e rouba a cena mesmo em suas breves aparições.
Movido por um intenso desejo de vingança, Uhtred lança-se em combate, muitas vezes deixando-se levar pela impulsividade. Ainda assim, o destino, a sorte e os deuses parecem favorecê-lo, permitindo que escape até mesmo das situações em que tudo parece perdido.