A review by rednikki
The Companion's Secret by Susanna Craig

emotional mysterious slow-paced

• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.5

This was slow-paced...perhaps a little too slow-paced. Knowing what I do of the history of this time versus how it is portrayed, this very much minimized some of the difficult things that happened. And it immersed you enough in the time and made the characters vivid enough that I felt more uncomfortable with the minimization than I would have with a book that just used the setting as window-dressing. That's the reason that, despite the excellent writing and character development, it didn't quite work for me.