By rejecting non-essential cookies, Reddit may still use certain cookies to ensure the proper functionality of our platform. To stay up to date on everything fantasy, science fiction, and WiC, follow our all-encompassing Facebook page and sign up for our exclusive newsletter. WELCOME TO UHTRED’S FEASTThe Last Kingdom is one of the most successful historical fiction series of our time, telling the epic story of the birth of England, and introducing one of the greatest ever fictional the iconic Uhtred of Bebbanburg. Overall I enjoyed it and would recommend it but probably not enough for the majority of readers (maybe?

As for me, I'm going to stick with more contemporary eats - compared to these, even Ramen soup is a delight!

At 288 pages, it isn’t a particularly long book; as such, I’d expect those Uhtred tales to be on the shorter side. The final story is the best of the lot with the usual dramatic descriptions of sea faring, preparing for battle and the descriptions of the fight itself. He named his chief protagonist Richard Sharpe, a rifleman involved in most major battles of the Peninsular War.

The Netflix show only covered the first 10 of them, which is where the movie comes in; it will combine events from Cornwell’s final three books to wrap up Uhtred’s story.S. Forester, chronicling the adventures of fictional British naval officer Horatio Hornblower during the Napoleonic Wars, and was surprised to find there were no such novels following Lord Wellington's campaign on land. No historical notes are provided to say whether this claimed miracle was ever actually claimed to be one, so my guess is that it is probably an entirely fictitious story. Fate may be inexorable, but has been relatively kind to Uhtred in the end, if not for most of the women he has loved. I’ve always found that topic mildly interesting without being fascinated by it, so the fact that it fills about half the book meant it was never going to get 5 stars from me.