FINISHED: Wolf of the Plains (minor stories but nothing you can't find out from googling Genghis Khan)

I rather liked this book, I've always been intrigued by family hierarchies and clan leaders and leadership passing from father to son, even though I don't agree with it as a political idea. The idea that some families are born to rule others is a seducing idea, especially in fiction.
Although this isn't strictly fiction, put together from the Chinese(?) translation of Genghis Khan's diaries.

I enjoyed the main thread of the story, that of Temujin (soon to be Genghis Khan) and his family's displacement after the death of his father and their fight for survival and then recognition. I was intrigued by their way of living, their skill with archery and swords, even if the fight scenes left me longing for more internal dialogue which I thought was far more interestingly written than anything else in the book. To be able to see inside each character, even those of the 'enemies' and see what drove them, their pride and their insecurities, I thought it was brilliantly done.

I'm not usually one for the historical fiction, I usually find it to.. romanticised, but this was enjoyable and well written. Whether I read the next few will depend on the story arc, I have little interest about any clashes with the 'civilised', I just want careering about on horses and firing arrows and stuff.

7/10