This is going to be the swiftest review ever.
Does what it says on the tin. Relies pretty much entirely on the venerable Bede, Asser's 'Life of Alfred', the Anglo-Saxon chronicle, and the lives of St Dunstan and Aethelwold for its source material, and takes the big events for its narrative and leaves the detail.
Successful at drawing the thread of history through the rulers.
Not saying it's a waste of time. It's just workmanlike and a typical, perhaps somewhat old fashioned, history in the way that's it's basically a readable timeline of nobility. If that's what you want, that's what this is. Well written and readable.
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