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adventurous
dark
informative
mysterious
reflective
sad
tense
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.5
While these novels don’t have the complexity of mysteries with dense characters and plot, instead being rather light, they’re informative, as much as about life in 12th C England as about human nature. By casting Cadfael as an older man with worldly experience, Peters gives him wisdom and insight into people around him, both good and bad.
As in the first book, A Morbid Taste for Bones, Cadfael provides a fatherly protection to a young couple in difficult if not desperate straits. He’s clever and crafty, able to persuade people to act as though their actions were their idea in the first place. He’s manipulative but not malicious, always looking for the good in people and doing his best to be fair.
I’m enjoying the series even though I’ve read only two so far, and hope to read more.
As in the first book, A Morbid Taste for Bones, Cadfael provides a fatherly protection to a young couple in difficult if not desperate straits. He’s clever and crafty, able to persuade people to act as though their actions were their idea in the first place. He’s manipulative but not malicious, always looking for the good in people and doing his best to be fair.
I’m enjoying the series even though I’ve read only two so far, and hope to read more.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Alcohol, Blood, Death of parent, Classism, Murder, Death, and War
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