by dragonoak
King’s Shadow Historical Fiction Book
Want a good book to read? In the novel King’s Shadow by Elizabeth Alder, Evyn the main character gets his tongue cut off which lead to a series of horrible, unfortunate events that are full of excitement, adventure, betrayal, and death. People can find all these things in the novel and more and that is why people should definitely read it! King’s Shadow is a great book worth the time people spend on reading. It’s interesting plot, characters and intriguing dialogue will suck people in and they will never want to put the book down!
The interesting plot is enough to sell people on the thought of King’s Shadow. The series of events that lead to the climax are nothing less than amazing. Every little detail is shown brightly! Evyn, a young boy working on a manor oblivious to the outside world, has the voice of an angel and trains to become a storiawr. As his uncle shows up on his door step Evyn thinks that this could lead to trouble! They all go to the village meeting and celebrate and are merry. Evyns uncle has a little too much to drink and disrespects some nobles; this outrages them and leads to the big battle. In the end of this battle Evyn gets the only talent he has taken away from him, his tongue! This is where everything begins. Evyns tongue getting cut off leads to a series of very tragic events. Many things happen to Evyn; he is put into slavery, learns to read and write and is taken under the wing of King Harold! Evyns life is full of excitement, sadness and tragedy but he manages it! All of these terrible but great events are in the book. Evyn has one long adventure as he goes through England. The plot just sucks people and makes them never want to put the book down. All the events fuse with each other and create