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title: "Lantern Bearers, The (The Roman Britain Trilogy, 3)"
brand: "rosemary sutcliff"
price: "4160 kr"
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# Lantern Bearers, The (The Roman Britain Trilogy, 3)

**Brand:** rosemary sutcliff
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## Customer Reviews

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 







  
  
    Lovely, evocative and bittersweet
  

*by M***E on Reviewed in the United States on January 15, 2012*

The Lantern Bearers is the fourth in Rosemary Sutcliff's loosely-connected series about a Roman family in ancient Britain.  The story begins when the last Roman legions are leaving Britain.  Beseiged by wars with Germanic tribes on the European mainland, the empire can no longer afford to spend any of its military capital fighting off Saxon invaders on this remotest of its territories which it had by now largely abandoned, anyway.  Young Aquila, a cavalry officer in the Roman army, is spending a rare leave with this father and sister on his family's homestead when he is urgently recalled to duty.  Immediately upon his return he learns that preparations are being made for the last boatload -- literally -- of Roman legions to leave the island of Britain forever.Over the ensuing few days Aquila wrestles with his thoughts and feelings and finally, at the last moment, realizes that, though he considers himself a Roman, Britain is his home.  His family has lived on the island for generations, he knows his father and sister will never leave, and he decides that he cannot leave either.  So he hides in the lighthouse on the coast and watches while his ship sails off without him, then makes his way back to his family's villa.Just three days later his world is forever turned upside down when Saxons raid his home, burning it to the ground, killing his father, carrying off his sister, and leaving him tied to a tree in the woods for the wolves to find.  By an ironic turn of events he is rescued and taken to the homeland of the Jutes (present-day Denmark) as a slave.  Desolate at the loss of his beloved father and sister and the only life and world he has known, beset by bitter loneliness in a strange land, the desire to find his sister is the only thing that keeps him going.Thus begins The Lantern Bearers, a story that traces Aquila through the ensuing decades of his life as he journeys through hatred, grief, desolation and bitterness in a quest first to find revenge and then to find some measure of peace.  At the same time the story traces the story of Britain as it gradually loses the influence of Rome and descends into the Dark Ages.As always, Sutcliff's writing is lovely, detailed and evocative, whether she is describing the British countryside, or a battle scene, or the physical decay of society in the wake of Rome's departure from the island.  Unlike her earlier books in this series, The Lantern Bearers really isn't about a young man's quest for honor or bravery, and doesn't involve adventure per se.  Instead, it explores, through the life of Aquila, the painful overtaking of an older culture (in this case the Romano-Celts of Britain) by invaders (the Saxons).  The bitterness, hatred, crossed loyalties, fragile peace and uneasy acceptance that Sutliff so skillfully depicts resonated with poignant realism; I am sure this is how it was in the many times in Britain's history (and that of other parts of the world as well) when two vastly different peoples battled for the same piece of ground, and their cultures (as inevitably happens) uneasily merged.The book also introduced the character of young Artos; the amount of attention given him, and the fact that he was a Romano-Celtic young man who was a charismatic battle leader, made it obvious that he was the King Arthur of legend.  I look forward to reading the next book in this series to see how Sutcliff develops his story.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 







  
  
    There are not enough stars for this author's writing.
  

*by K***R on Reviewed in the United States on October 6, 2021*

so sad she died so young. I would read her books forever! this, ending of her trilogy for YA readers is truly for adults as well. I love her books. Read OUTCAST first and now this trilogy...I hope to read ALL her books before I die! what a sad, affirming, tragic, moving, real, wonderful book. It is different from the first two...a bit darker...a bit sadder...a bit tougher to read...and worth every word and the time it takes to read it...just like the first two. I am so happy to have discovered these books to read now. I recommend these books with all my heart.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 







  
  
    Ancient Britain Come to Life
  

*by K***Y on Reviewed in the United States on September 16, 2021*

I truly enjoyed this novel. I felt like I was blind and I was being told moment by moment the events that transpired. The main character is very well described and the changes in his life clearly lead to changes in his heart.I also enjoyed the descriptions of Artos, the Bear Cub and am looking forward to finding out his ultimate destiny.I rather enjoyed the lack of romance. Rather, Ms. Sutcliff focused on the love of family and on duty and on the shifting alliances Aquila finds within himself.

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