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A review by timwolfe
The Anatomist's Apprentice by Tessa Harris
2.0
As a mystery: slow-moving but eventually engaging; I think we ended up with four different deaths with at least as many perpetrators, which is fun until it starts feeling overdone... especially when a character actually points out in-story that the final murder was completely unnecessary, and in fact contrary to the murderer's admitted goals.
(One could also wish for a world-class scientist to be a little quicker on the uptake when, say, a servant child's shocking death is followed a fortnight later by the master's murder, or when he)
As a romance/period drama: fairly stilted -- and the early indications that the the female main character would have initiative quickly atrophied until she became a helpless basket case, who was nevertheless sought after by every male main character in the book.
As an adventure in 18th-century scientific experimentation, exhumation, and corpse dissection: great? I guess? If you like that sort of thing? Except almost none of it had any bearing on the plot.
*sigh*
Simon Vance, I trusted your honeyed English tongue to read me good books. Please do better.
(One could also wish for a world-class scientist to be a little quicker on the uptake when, say, a servant child's shocking death is followed a fortnight later by the master's murder, or when he
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notices a supposed senile purposefully collecting mushrooms in the woods.As a romance/period drama: fairly stilted -- and the early indications that the the female main character would have initiative quickly atrophied until she became a helpless basket case, who was nevertheless sought after by every male main character in the book.
As an adventure in 18th-century scientific experimentation, exhumation, and corpse dissection: great? I guess? If you like that sort of thing? Except almost none of it had any bearing on the plot.
*sigh*
Simon Vance, I trusted your honeyed English tongue to read me good books. Please do better.