Daughter of War
An unputdownable historical epic

We have been scammed!!! 😒 2.5 Stars ❤️ I want to state that the MAJOR reason i purchased this book was because it alluded to the fact that there were women who were templars and in this book they were going to be at the fore-front of things. So while i was expecting this: I got nuns instead. Making matt......more

3.75* "It is a sad fact that sometimes blind optimism overrides common sense." - Titborga I never give another star rate than a whole or a half star. But 3.5* would be too low and 4* too high, so what else could I do? I got the ARC of 'The Last Emir' on Netgalley, not knowing it was part two of the Kni......more

Having conquered ancient Rome, Simon Turney turns his hand to medieval Spain. Daughter of War is set in 1198. It is a period of upheaval and violence, a time of bloody reconquest, as Christians battle Moors to reclaim the kingdoms of Iberia. In this tumultuous time there are several factions, each vy......more

A new series from Simon Turney is always worth a second look. He is a prolific author of historical fiction, and has created some fine leading characters. So this new tale has quite a lot to live up to. The opening book is set in Spain during the wars of the reconquest, and the moors have the initiat......more

Templar fiction often conjures up images of Outremer and of great Crusader sieges at the walls of the ancient holy cities. But in 'Daughter of War', Simon Turney cleverly confounds expectation, and instead whisks the reader onto the hot dusty plains and rugged sierras of Reconquista Spain. Here, the......more