Book review of the Tormod series by Kat Black
These historical fantasy books are
refreshing. They are reflective of the
dialect and accents of the characters.
Each character has a distinct personality with no one person being perfect. Religion is presented as more than faith, but
as a weapon also. The reliance on other
characters to lead the main character causes him to be crippled, but it also
spurs him on to great lengths.
The idea of the knights being associated with the
church does remind those of us that know our history about the Crusades. This thought does provoke an interest in how
these “knights” would allow themselves to believe that just because the Pope of
the time would deem it so, they were allowed to kill and actually doing God’s
work. This series seems to skip over
that fact, but it does deal with the fact that these men took the church more
seriously than logic at time. There were
characters who obviously did not think for themselves and so, they turned into
what we think of as drones or they turned bad.
The thinking men were the ones that were going against the power hungry
and looking out for those that were, in fact, deserving of their power.
