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A Morbid Taste for Bones
by Ellis Peters
2.5 stars
I've been in a bit of a reading slump which may have contributed to my somewhat tepid opinion of this book. It was... fine, but nothing particularly interesting.
A Morbid Taste for Bones takes place in Medieval England where Brother Cadfael, a Brother of the Shrewsbury Abbey goes along with other members of the abbey to Wales in order to unearth some bones of a dead saint for "glory of God" or something along those lines. There are a lot of conflicting opinions, and the villagers aren't too keen on some random abbey coming along and unearthing their saint.
When an influential member of the village expresses his opposition to moving the saint's remains, he's then found dead, which leads to Cadfael trying to figure out what really went down. This story is a short one, and complete with romantic drama and plenty of shenanigans. I just found it to be really slow, especially for such a short book.
It took me a while to get all of the characters straight (and even by the end I wasn't exactly sure of who everyone was.) It was fine. Serviceable, not too heavy. There were aspects of the story I liked but in the end I just didn't care too much for the story and I think a lot of that had to do with the way it was told. The writing was a bit hard for me to follow, which very well could have been a me problem, but it still made it harder for me to really enjoy the book.
I did appreciate Cadfael and Sioned's characters, but it wasn't quite enough to carry this book for me unfortunately.
I've been in a bit of a reading slump which may have contributed to my somewhat tepid opinion of this book. It was... fine, but nothing particularly interesting.
A Morbid Taste for Bones takes place in Medieval England where Brother Cadfael, a Brother of the Shrewsbury Abbey goes along with other members of the abbey to Wales in order to unearth some bones of a dead saint for "glory of God" or something along those lines. There are a lot of conflicting opinions, and the villagers aren't too keen on some random abbey coming along and unearthing their saint.
When an influential member of the village expresses his opposition to moving the saint's remains, he's then found dead, which leads to Cadfael trying to figure out what really went down. This story is a short one, and complete with romantic drama and plenty of shenanigans. I just found it to be really slow, especially for such a short book.
It took me a while to get all of the characters straight (and even by the end I wasn't exactly sure of who everyone was.) It was fine. Serviceable, not too heavy. There were aspects of the story I liked but in the end I just didn't care too much for the story and I think a lot of that had to do with the way it was told. The writing was a bit hard for me to follow, which very well could have been a me problem, but it still made it harder for me to really enjoy the book.
I did appreciate Cadfael and Sioned's characters, but it wasn't quite enough to carry this book for me unfortunately.