The Conscience of a King: With the Magna Carta signed, will there finally be peace? (The Medieval Saga Series Book 7)

The final saga of the era of the early Plantagenets complete with pennants flying, battles, intrigued and terrible tempers.Through the eyes of the servants and staff to some of these invading Normans.A time of history rarely mentioned in main stream school history of at all! Gripping and revealing stuff, that will keep you reading until the end.Well written and enjoyable, the only thing that I didn't like as a horse person, was the activity of 'holding the horses bridle', and not ' the horse by its bridle' as the former suggests that the horse was not wearing it at the time! However, this would only bother anyone who knew the difference, and would not spoil a set of damn good books.Will be hard to find my next read now!Gillian Fellows 2023

This book suffers, like most in the series after the first, of trying to get through the period at breakneck speed. Characters suddenly age 10 or 20 years, or die between chapters, without really rounding off their story arc. That's bad with a fictional character as most have been, since you can spend the time you want with them - it's perverse with a real man, as the protagonist is here (Simon de Montfort) since the years we mostly know him for are zoomed through in the last 20 pages here, as if the writer had had enough. The stories are gripping - as the author says they write themselves - the writing less so.It's also odd in this 7th in the series that we suddenly abandon the fictional family we've been following, apart from one member who is wholly uncharacterized, just a name really, when he appears in Montfort's story. Why set them up just to abandon them in book 7?

What a wonderful series this has been. It was interesting to read a sympathetic view of Simon de Montfort and has made me want to read more about him. A lovely story, well-told and very well researched too. I hope that David Field has another series in mind as I’ve enjoyed this and the Tudor series so very much.

Learnt a lot more history again, and the usual great minor characters, some with humour, to make it an enjoyable read.