A Knight of the White Cross by G.A. Henty is a fun book that is full of action and adventure.
G.A. Henty is a wonderful author but, in this book, I have found some down sides to his style. Henty explains things (such as an object or person) in his books in depth but, not in to great of depth. I do not like an author who doesn’t explain anything. This problem will make a book short and will lack substance. I also do not like an author who has to explain every last thing in detail. This type of author will go on and on about little things like a tree! He will have five, long paragraphs on a tree that will only be mentioned once in the book! This will loose the reader’s attention and make the book long and boring. Henty does good at not making his books this way. I have read three of his books now and one thing I do not like is that he makes time in his book go by very quickly. For example, in a Knight of the White Cross, Gervaise becomes a young knight in about five chapters, even though he was a young page in the beginning of the book. I have found that this is a constant problem. In the Dragon and the Raven and Wulf the Saxon, time goes by very quickly as well. I do not like this because it is like jumping all around in the book and, that can get confusing.
Henty’s plot line is really good but, it seems to go all over the place. For example, they are sort of at peace then suddenly they are war. Besides this problem, the plot line is great and, has a lot of historical information.
A Knight of the White Cross is a great book and G. A. Henty is a great author, I look forward to reading more of this author’s works.
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