‘Whispers of the Runes’ by Christina Courtenay is a timeslip romance fiction story that is the second book I have read of Christinas’. The previous book was in the 9th Century and we met Linnea and Hfran. Their story was for me, brilliant.
Sara is Linnea’s best friend and Rurik is Hrfan’s brother, so we meet the main characters of this book and they already have knowledge that time travel happens, so that sets us up for this story. This time, we are in medieval England and the enemy is The Great Heathen Army and they have a mission to conquer all the kingdoms no matter how they do it.
I really enjoyed the previous book and know how much historical detail Christina Courtenay puts into her work. This one flowed even better that the other book, I thought the first was marvellous and Whisper of the Runes just solidifies her writing for me. The characters are again so wonderful and vibrant. The two main ones are surrounded by characters just as varied as always. There is always a hated one and Asmund is shining in this catergory.
Again I was transported away and truly enveloped in the 9th century, Christina has a knack of allowing me to time travel with whichever characters are going back in time, it is such an immersive experience and again I felt like I was being educated as well as entertained yet again.
Another fabulous book from Christina and I am hoping I will be able to experience time travel again soon.
Thanks to Rachel’s Random Resources and Christina Courtenay for the book to take part and bring you my thoughts.
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