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I read this book about 18-Aug-2001. This is the first time I've read this book. The book is copyright 1999. This note was last modified Thursday, 19-Dec-2002 16:27:04 PST.
This note contains spoilers for the book.
My first real "historical mystery" books were the Ellis Peters books (about Brother Cadfael, at the monastery of St. Peter and St. Paul in Shrewsbury). Although I read Arthur Conan Doyle (Sherlock Holmes) and Doroth Sayers essentially as "historical fiction". The period they took place in wasn't anywhere close to mine. I haven't tried this series before; I just stumbled on it in the bookstore today, and it looked worth a try, although they didn't have the first books of the series. Well, we'll see.
It wasn't much good. The characters didn't seem to me to be well-drawn, differentiated, or any of those good things. Little individuality, more quirks than personality. Not much for meaningful history or interactions.
The writing improved a bit towards the end. The plot twisting is rather nicely done, and final ending is actually rather suprisingly horrific. The problem is that I don't care much about any of the people by then.
I'm not going to be seeking out the rest of this series.