This was my first Arturo Pérez-Reverte but definitely not my last. I quickly acquired the back list of his books for the library and we started promoting his novels. He's one of my all time favourite writers and a new title by him is always welcome with smiles. This caper of a novel has lots going f...
Three and a half? Four minus?It's good fun for those who love books, and parts of it are quite suspenseful. The ending was unsatisfying, though, and I felt the need to go back and start compiling a list of characters, as it got rather confusing. I would have had a difficult time following the sto...
Książka wciąga do pierwszych stron. Napisana jest przystępnym i barwnym językiem. Autor na tle barwnych opisów Sevilli w ciekawy sposób przedstawia relacje panujące wewnątrz struktur kościoła katolickiego. Z jednej strony widzimy Kościół w szerokim tego słowa znaczeniu, który powoli oddala się od sw...
I've read two of Perez-Reverte's books and have decided that his conclusions or solutions are never as well-done as the road to get to them. Loved the premise of this one and enjoyed journey to the end. The climax and resolution were meh.
The Fencing Master started off pretty slowly for me. There's quite a bit in the first half of the book about Spanish politics and power grabs, a lot about monarchists and revolutionaries, and I didn't find much of this to be very interesting. Enter Doña Adela de Otero. With her introduction into ...
As I started reading this, I had an odd sensation that perhaps I'd read it before, because so many of the details seemed familiar... and then I realized that this was the (extremely loose) basis for the Johnny Depp movie The Seventh Gate. That said, please don't look to The Club Dumas for the same ...
There's not a lot of plot in this book, first and foremost. What there is is a string of really exciting action sequences, locked together through a tenuous thread of international politics and colonialism. I suspect this book would have been stronger having read earlier books in the series, but it ...
I was really hoping to like this book but the writing was terrible. I don't know if its a bad translater or what but I found this book really confusing. I only made it about 15% in before giving up.
Disappointed. That's my review in one word. This book shadowed me for a while. I love Zafon's Shadow of the Wind, and this seemed to pop up in similar company. The story is as follows: This mystery is the story of Coros, a European book expert who is on a two fold mission - to verify the authen...
This is my favourite of Perez-Reverte's books that I've read thus far. The stoic fencing maestro Jaime Astarloa is living out his remaining days of quiet desperation with a philosophical stiff upper lip as he watches the way of life he has devoted himself to fade into unlamented obscurity. Don Jaime...
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