airdog reviewed Grave goods by Ariana Franklin
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3 stars
I'm not a specialist of the period the book is set in (the reign of Henri II) but it seems to me difficult to believe that an English king of that period would put his faith in the knowledge of a woman (especially a foreign woman coming from Spain) with an Arab assistant, no matter how much that woman would have proved to him.
But I was nevertheless easily able to put aside this rather incongruous aspect of the novel and greatly enjoy reading on.
The plot is well written and from page to page never lets you down by getting Adelia and her friends out of one difficult situation only to put her in another one right away. With the main character we bounce from an escape from forest villains to miraculously surviving an attempt to bury her to being saved from certain drowning and so on.
And while …
I'm not a specialist of the period the book is set in (the reign of Henri II) but it seems to me difficult to believe that an English king of that period would put his faith in the knowledge of a woman (especially a foreign woman coming from Spain) with an Arab assistant, no matter how much that woman would have proved to him.
But I was nevertheless easily able to put aside this rather incongruous aspect of the novel and greatly enjoy reading on.
The plot is well written and from page to page never lets you down by getting Adelia and her friends out of one difficult situation only to put her in another one right away. With the main character we bounce from an escape from forest villains to miraculously surviving an attempt to bury her to being saved from certain drowning and so on.
And while it's not really difficult to guess who the culprits are there are some nice twists to the plot that keep the interest going.
All in all, a book I would gladly recommend to anyone interested in a good plot and a nice medieval setting.