Mercenaries

Like every tiny Sicilian town, Bàusu was a maze of narrow alleys into which he did not want to go, for in such constrained areas a mailed knight lost the value of his sword and became at the mercy of the knife. For this reader, I learned only of the Norman Conquest of England as part of the school cu......more

The writing is not bad, but after reading about 14% of this book I am bored and skimming. There is a lot of riding to and fro, arriving at camp, making camp, leaving, more riding, descriptions, descriptions and more descriptions and explanations and generally very little happening. Not keeping my at......more