The Hild Sequence: Hild : A Novel (Hardcover)

from AltheaAnn

A truly excellent book. I've read everything by Nicola Griffith, so I've been looking forward to this release with quite a lot of anticipation. I have to say, the book isn't really what I expected. However, neither was it disappointing - not even close!While Griffith's previous work has been (exc...

from Edwinrelf

I think this is an exceptional novel. The story is woven with facts and fiction. It's based on real people in early 7th century England at king Edwin's courts in Northumbria a couple of hundred years after the Roman Empire civilisation had left and just as the new Romans are coming in with their ...

from jennybeast

Magnificent. I was reluctant to pick this up, but am a fervent convert. Hild is such a wonderfully engaging character -- almost a sherlock holmes of the dark ages, only more focused on reading the tides of the world than the private histories of individuals. And Nicola Griffith does a fantastic...

from eyes.2c

...the child begets the woman, cleft to her wyrd Hild the child that would become Saint Hilda of Whitby. Griffith's novel illuminates the person Hild might have been in her earliest years. The known is cleverly interwoven into the storyline. Hild's father, Prince Hereric, was nephew to King Edwin...

from gypsysmom

This is a remarkable book that I would have given 5 stars to except that I really wanted a comprehensive list of characters and where they lived. There is a map and there is a family tree for the noble house that Hild is part of. But there are many more characters than just that noble house and i...