The Book of I (2025) by David Greig

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The Book of I (2025)

by David Greig

   The Book of I is a fun, short novel out of Scotland set in the Middle Ages in the aftermath of a Viking raid of a British Church.  The Vikings murder everyone except a young apprentice who hides in the latrine and the wife of the blacksmith, who escapes by rendering her attacker unconscious with a glass of extremely strong mead.  So strong that his compatriots give him a half-ass burial and depart, leaving him for dead.  The remnant Viking wakes up the following day and has to figure out his next move.  It is low stakes fiction with a couple episodes of extremely brutal violence.  Very short.  I love books set in the Middle Ages that aren't historical fiction or fantasy, just literary fiction set in the past.  This is one of those books.