Bloodtide
Style: Outstanding
Attitude: Objectionable → Unobjectionable
In Brief: Powerfully written story based on Icelandic sagas. Disturbing vision of a future very pagan Britain ruled by brutality and where strength and cunning prevail. Christianity is reduced to an undistinguished sect.
Publisher: Penguin
Published in: 1999
Age Range: Mid Teens+
Period: Future
Genres: Fantasy , Gritty , Mythical
Synopsis:
Set slightly into the future when a decaying Britain is controlled by large criminal clans. The daughter of one clan is wedded to the father of another to create an alliance. However her family is trapped and killed and their empire taken and destroyed while she remains half in love with her husband.
Tuesday 1st January 2002