A review by lakecake
The Fencing Master by Arturo Pérez-Reverte

3.0

I didn't enjoy this one quite as much as The Flanders Panel. It took a really long time to get to the central mystery and I felt like the villain in this one was just way too obvious. There was a lack of subtlety to the whole story, and the final resolve basically boiled down to a bunch of facts Perez-Reverte never made us care about. The main character, Don Jaime, became almost an afterthought in the final solution.

All that said, I really enjoyed the way the book was written, i.e. the language and phrases used. This is probably more a compliment to the translator, but still great. Makes me want to try to learn enough Spanish to read the originals and try to find out what the difference is in translation.