Breanna's blog

I’m something of a history buff and something of a buff for buff, kick-ass women so it’s not surprising that Boudica has a special place in my heart. Boudica (or The Boudica, meaning “She who brings Victory” ) was an iron-age British tribes-woman and queen who, in CE 60, rallied the tribes of ancient Britain to rise and throw off the oppressive yoke of Roman colonization.

While looking for research material about the time period, I did a search for “Boudica” on my Amazon Kindle®digital reader and found Manda Scott’s 4-book “Boudica” series, : Dreaming the Eagle, Dreaming the Bull, Dreaming the Hound and finally Dreaming the Serpent Spear.

I downloaded a free sample onto my kindle and began reading it on the bus to work. By the time I got off the bus , I was hooked.

Manda set s her hook immediately like a good action/mystery writer. By the end of the second paragraph of the first book, we have met our heroine, Braeca and she has at once killed a man in self defense, avenged her slain queen/mother and been promoted into the ranks of the warriors of her early British tribe by virtue of her act of valor in open battle, all the age of 12. Not a bad start.