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A review by bowienerd_82
The Pilgrim of Hate by Ellis Peters
4.0
I love the way that the Cadfael books are not frozen in time, nor do they forget what has gone before. The years march on, and past events still affect the present.
This one refers back to the first book of the series a good bit (A Morbid Taste for Bones), as it involves the festival of St. Winifred, the saint whose bones the first book's plot revolved around.
I love the fact that we get to see Cadfael worrying about whether he has done the right thing. He's so often confidant and in control, it's nice to see the other side of him.
I also very much enjoy the way that the author weaves the plot with the larger happenings at that time in history down to the small human moments of the characters.
This one is quite a bit more mystical/religious than the books sometimes get, but I found the book both compelling and moving (and a good distraction from a long, long plane ride).
This one refers back to the first book of the series a good bit (A Morbid Taste for Bones), as it involves the festival of St. Winifred, the saint whose bones the first book's plot revolved around.
I love the fact that we get to see Cadfael worrying about whether he has done the right thing. He's so often confidant and in control, it's nice to see the other side of him.
I also very much enjoy the way that the author weaves the plot with the larger happenings at that time in history down to the small human moments of the characters.
This one is quite a bit more mystical/religious than the books sometimes get, but I found the book both compelling and moving (and a good distraction from a long, long plane ride).