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3.55 AVERAGE
3.55 AVERAGE
mysterious
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
I enjoyed this, it was a fun read with engaging characters, and the pace picked up in the second half of the book after a slightly slow start.
slow-paced
Ellis Peters's voice is delicate, charming, and just exciting enough in the action sequences, exactly what you want out of a cozy English murder mystery. The only real complaint I have about this otherwise worthy successor to the enjoyable Fallen Into the Pit is that
Still, a perfectly enjoyable series, if less fascinating than her better known Cadfael books.
Spoiler
Dom uses the exact same trick to catch the killer as he did in #1, and it all goes pretty much the same way with the climax. I feel a little cheated.Still, a perfectly enjoyable series, if less fascinating than her better known Cadfael books.
lighthearted
mysterious
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Content Warnings
Moderate: Murder
Minor: Blood, Pregnancy, Injury/Injury detail
Real Rating: 4.25* of five
Dominick Felse at sixteen made my reading experience brighter than the first installment of the series. I loved his pash for the red Karmann Ghia and the pretty owner thereof. Peters's moving evocation of George Felse's sense of himself changing in reference to Dom's adulting was so tenderly rendered and sensitively felt that I was amazed afresh at her unmarried childlessness. Although permaybehaps that was the source of her clarity and compassion...I shall never know.
How fun to rediscover a writer whose many series mysteries gave me so many hours of joy.
Dominick Felse at sixteen made my reading experience brighter than the first installment of the series. I loved his pash for the red Karmann Ghia and the pretty owner thereof. Peters's moving evocation of George Felse's sense of himself changing in reference to Dom's adulting was so tenderly rendered and sensitively felt that I was amazed afresh at her unmarried childlessness. Although permaybehaps that was the source of her clarity and compassion...I shall never know.
How fun to rediscover a writer whose many series mysteries gave me so many hours of joy.