![]() ![]() ![]() The fictional element in historical fiction about real-life people (which both these women, and a number of the other characters here, were) uses imagination to reconstruct the details history leaves out, and especially the inner personalities and motivations that history may record imperfectly or not at all. ![]() Where the first book focused on Gudrid, former pagan priestess (now a Christian) and healer, however, this one focuses on her half-sister-in-law by a previous marriage, Freydis, out-of-wedlock daughter of Eirik the Red. I would strongly advise reading the books in order they have many of the same characters, and it will help you as a reader to come to this book with the better and deeper understanding of the relationships, personalities and general situation that the first book will give you. the background information and many of the evaluative comments in that review would apply here as well, though IMO this book, if anything, is even better than the first. My five-star review of the earlier book is here. This is the long-awaited sequel to the author's God's Daughter, and brings her Saga of the Vikings of the New World to a conclusion. ![]()
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