Druids

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After Ainvar's grandmother, his only family, gave herself up as a sacrifice, the chief druid took him in. Ainvar learned the secrets and ways of the druids and when his teacher died he became chief druid. When his childhood friend, Prince Vercingetorix or Rix for short, starts to try and gather the Gauls into an army to fight Roman invaders Ainvar agrees to help. Together they used magic rituals and swords to unite many of their people into the greatest army Gaul had seen. Rather slow and plodding, could have been tightened and shortened up IMO. The writing has a tendency to drag and a lot of the battle strategy and tech-talk was over my head, which meant I was losing my concentration while reading. The magic was really well done, the author writes from Ainvar's point of view and he completely believes in magic created by his rituals. I am still not sure if there was any magic in the book or if it was all suggestion and coincidence, that is how subtly it is worked in.