Lion Hearts: the richly drawn, action-packed historical adventure from the Sunday Times bestseller

Not the greatest read a lot of profanity which was a bit of a surprise, was set in 1350 was around the time of the black plague and follow a story of a knights and a group that had disbanded called the Essex Dogs, bit of a confusing love interest In chapter one wouldn't be a book I would be going back to shame because the war element was something I was looking forward to but the language used was letting the story down abit

'Lion Hearts' by Dan Jones, is set in the mid-fourteenth century, during the Hundred Years War and the time of the Black Death. It is the conclusion to a trilogy, which regales us with the adventures and exploits of a gang known as The Essex Dogs. However, having missed out on instalments one and two - it seemed that I had come a bit late to the party. The first part, entitled 'Winchelsea' imagines what daily life for most folk may have been like in this 'Antient Town' that is part of the Cinq Ports Confederation. By the end of it, it felt as if I had been part of a mediaeval pub crawl or, rather, embroiled in a mediaeval pub brawl! The final part, entitled 'Windsor' - with or without its 'merry wives' - was scarcely any different. I suspect that the author had it in mind to create a series of novels that could be adapted for the big screen in the form of a 'buddy film.' Frankly, if you are looking for a good read of this type in the guise of historical fiction, then you cannot better Alexandre Dumas' 'The Three Musketeers.' A useful tip for anyone weighing up this book is to start with the historical note at the end — had I done that initially, I could have spared myself the trouble of reading the rest of it.