Sunday Salon: Free books and Attila the Hun

Assuming I finish the short book I'm reading now--and I probably will--I will have read 16 books in August. A lifetime record! All accomplished because of the changes I mentioned in my last Salon post, from last week. Below is the beginning of my review of one of those books. But before you read that, make sure you enter my back-to-school contest for a chance to win TEN BOOKS from Hachette Book Group! Now, on to the review:

Beagle Bay Books © 2003, 271 pages

Gudrun's Tapestry is set in the 4th century A.D., when Attila the Hun and his hordes of stocky, scar-faced warriors were menacing Europe, the western Roman Empire enjoying its last gasps. Gudrun is a Burgundian, whose people were decimated by Attila at the behest of the Romans during her childhood. We meet her as an adult, when she has made her way into the city of Attila under false pretences. She is kept prisoner there, and her story--told in the first person--jumps between her intrigues and survival strategies among the Huns and her earlier life among the Burgundians. The latter story builds to explain fully why she came to be with Attila.

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