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A review by madiantin
One Corpse Too Many by Ellis Peters
4.0
Cadfael is awesome. I love the premise of these stories. I love the idea of a Welsh fighter who'd gone about battling and killing and knowing the bad things of the world going, "Well sod this for a game of soldiers" and deciding to become a Benedictine monk in Shrewsbury. How did Peters think of such a fabulous character?
The stories don't require too much brain power. You know the boy will get the girl and justice will be served and everything will end happily ever after...except for...y'know...those 95 men who were killed. I mean, it's important to not think TOO much about what was actually going on at that time. Things were so so so bad for the common people during the time of Stephen and Matilda's fighting that I'm sure most people thought it was the end of the world. And it was for many.
But setting that aside, these are really fun little stories. And I think this one may be one of the best.
I love the fact that Cadfael is almost omniscient at times. I love the cadence of the language. I love that Peters wrote it in a way that I can believe this was actually how people spoke. I love the casual interweaving of God into daily life. It feels like that's really how it would have been. I would love to have lived in the Middle Ages for about a day with the possibility of being able to leave whenever things got too uncomfortable. =D.
The stories don't require too much brain power. You know the boy will get the girl and justice will be served and everything will end happily ever after...except for...y'know...those 95 men who were killed. I mean, it's important to not think TOO much about what was actually going on at that time. Things were so so so bad for the common people during the time of Stephen and Matilda's fighting that I'm sure most people thought it was the end of the world. And it was for many.
But setting that aside, these are really fun little stories. And I think this one may be one of the best.
I love the fact that Cadfael is almost omniscient at times. I love the cadence of the language. I love that Peters wrote it in a way that I can believe this was actually how people spoke. I love the casual interweaving of God into daily life. It feels like that's really how it would have been. I would love to have lived in the Middle Ages for about a day with the possibility of being able to leave whenever things got too uncomfortable. =D.