The Deepest Sea
By Charles Barnitz
Roc, $5.99
ISBN 0451455045
Review by Larry Woods
In the eighth century, the Vikings sought riches, land, and plunder. Charles Barnitz makes their adventures his subject in The Deepest Sea. This is not your usual alternate history story. This debut fantasy novel focuses on the Irish Vikings and young Bran Facecut who has ventured forth on his first vik to prove his merit by marrying the town's most eligible maiden. Bran buries a leper, befriends a village girl who travels with him, fights alongside an infamous berserker, is saved by monks, contends with rival Vikings, kills a dragon, becomes immortal, and discovers a ghost. And that's not all the story.
Larry D. Woods, an attorney, is an avid reader of science fiction.
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