I copied the plot summary from Amazon, for I am crap at plot summaries!
Yeah, it's kind of an odd book in the Sutcliff canon. I'm not sure I would actually have liked it, had I read it back in my LoA days when I bought it, right on top of EOT9 and TSC. I have sort of mixed feelings about it now, but it's definitely interesting.
... also to add very quietly and for the record that, to my knowledge, gloria_mundi (of AO3, above) wrote the very first Sutcliff fiction on the web: she wrote it about this book and posted on the long defunct and sadly missed Slash Cotillion website. That would have been... eh, pre 2002? Just saying. :)
Re: Blood and Sand
Yeah, it's kind of an odd book in the Sutcliff canon. I'm not sure I would actually have liked it, had I read it back in my LoA days when I bought it, right on top of EOT9 and TSC. I have sort of mixed feelings about it now, but it's definitely interesting.
... also to add very quietly and for the record that, to my knowledge, gloria_mundi (of AO3, above) wrote the very first Sutcliff fiction on the web: she wrote it about this book and posted on the long defunct and sadly missed Slash Cotillion website. That would have been... eh, pre 2002? Just saying. :)
Oh, cool! I didn't realize.