re: Saxon Tales/Last Kingdom by Bernard Cornwell

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Thats kind of how how that era actually was, though. Killed one viking leader, and another one would pop up. Rinse and repeat.

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Sure but the whole plot of every book is identical (I’ve read them all so not a knock).

- New scary Viking leader
- Uthred tells them all how to beat new scary Viking leader
- Uhtred is not trusted because he’s a pagan and is accused of siding with the Vikings by some evil Saxon lord
- Alfred (then later Edward), believed evil Saxon lord although Uthred has saved England like 11 times at this point
-Uhtred tells them all to frick off but gets roped in anyway
- Uhtred saves the day with brilliant plan that everyone thinks will fail, gets no credit
- rinse repeat