A Warrior's Fate (Wolves of Morai)

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It seems both Kings were having issues with their men. Floki was also questioning Ragnar's decisions. Of course, he's been judging Ragnar since Athelstan came along. This week he was pretty clear it's either their Gods or the Christian one. There can be no reconciliation between the two. In a way, Floki was seeing the future clearly when he said, "The triumph of the Chirst God will mean the death and destruction of all of ours." That's ultimately how things went down. This is more than a fantasy romance because the relationships between all the characters are so nuanced. There is more than romantic love here. There is the love between siblings, the relationships between best friends, parents, coworkers. Relationships and bonds being strained because of circumstances, but still holding true. Poor Athelstan—when Ecbert and Lagertha start unashamedly coupling in the bath, he’s simply ignored, left to look awkward and towel off. A brilliant ending to an amazing series of books and stories. With this, the Extinction Cycle is complete.

Did King Ecbert just introduce Paris as a challenge to lead the Northmen out of Wessex? It certainly seems like the main players on Vikings have their own little Game of Thrones going on. I'm very curious to see how things between Ragnar, Ecbert and Lagertha play out. Was anyone else turned off watch our heroic shield maiden kiss the English King? As always, remember, you can watch Vikings online via TV Fanatic if you ever miss an episode and need to catch up. While Lagertha seems to have learned a few phrases in Ecbert’s Old English, the show continues to play loose with translation rules.

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The entire cast was lovable and relatable, especially the main two, Isla and Kai. They were fleshed out and REAL in the same way I felt Feyre and Rhys were real. We get to see how the interact in all different situations, not just with each other but separately as well. I LOVED Isla, and am always excited to find a strong female character than embraces her femininity.

Some will always believe that mutual religious tolerance is impossible. The tension between the Christian Saxons and the Norse Vikings has begun to create problems on both sides as we are shown early on in parallel scenes in the episode. Two of Ecbert’s court (somewhat) hesitantly call their king out for his willingness to ally himself with the Northmen, even to the point of evicting his own people from their lands and giving it to the new arrivals. The fact that they feel strongly enough about this to admit the content of their muttering to him speaks a great deal to how serious a problem his people believe this to be. While any king rules, on one level or another, by the consent of the people, an English court of the time did not have the democratic tone that tended to be more true of a Viking one where anyone could, in theory, speak his mind.Ragnar’s response to Bjorn upon learning that Porunn came raiding while pregnant is worth examining further, but his fury at his son strikes deep at the contradictory heart of the king. There’s a level of paternalism there, sure, but it also speaks both to Ragnar’s lesson on power and sacrifice to Bjorn in the season’s first scene, and his speech to Floki tonight:

Even with the points listed above, I rated the book 4.5 stars and rounded up to 5 stars because I just couldn’t rate it 4 stars, it was too good for that. The Vikings begin climbing the mountain to meet with Princess Kwenthrith's brother and his army. Princess Kwenthrith asks Ragnar to spare her brother. When they are unable to see over a cliff of the mountain, Torstein volunteers to go first to make sure Princess Kwenthrith's brother and his army are there, and dies valiantly. Fighting ensues, Þórunn is severely injured, and eventually, Princess Kwenthrith’s brother surrenders. While Christianity embraces the idea that God already knows the day on which we will die as well as that about humans enjoying free will even to the point of rejecting God, few adherents live as the Vikings do. They instead believe the gods more actively select a day on which they will die, and since that day is set, they are free to act as they wish because nothing they do or fail to do will alter the time of their death–this is what Ragnar reminds Floki of after the battle when he points out that their mutual friend’s death was on his own terms, not those of his king. And if you were looking for a formula more likely to produce brave warriors, it’s hard to imagine one that would so thoroughly remove fear from the equation: if it’s not your day to die, nothing can kill you. Combined with the promise of Valhalla, it’s hardly surprising that the battlefield ferocity of the Vikings still fascinates us a thousand years after the last one died. As someone who dislikes the omegaverse ranking system that is prevalent in werewolf / wolf shifter romances, I actually didn't mind the system in AWF. It might've been because the Greek letters were used interchangeably with other terms, such as alpha and king, beta and second-in-command.I admittedly was nervous to start this book. I am a person who likes to invest in the main protagonists relationship and to hear they are rejecting it made me pause. Thankfully I saw someone talk a little bit about it on Tiktok and decided to buy the e-book copy. Let me start off and say I am buying the physical copy to add to my shelf. Book Genre: Adventure, Fantasy, Fantasy Romance, Magic, Paranormal, Paranormal Romance, Romance, Shapeshifters, Werewolves, Witches