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This book was both everything I love and everything I loathe about historical fiction. Everything I love includes characters pulled straight out of history: Chaucer, Gower, Richard the II, Hawkswood, and plots that involve books and codes and secret symbols. Everything I loathe is, ironically...
Definitely not a book to be read in a quick setting. Are you into literary figures? Historical fiction? Historical mystery filled with spies and intrigue? Something that takes place in the Middle Ages? All of the above in one book? Sure! Let’s take it! I’d have to say, there can be no better descrip...
Holsinger does an amazing job of recreating medieval England in all its glory, or lack thereof. The opening scene is that of gongfarmers who find a blockage even less desirable than what they expected in London's sewers, immediately introducing the reader to the less glorious truth about the past an...
This book took me a surprisingly long time to get through. I liked it, but somehow it just wasn't absorbing. While I was reading it, I found myself interested in the story and the characters, but when I set it down, I didn't feel an immediate compulsion to pick it up again. So a book I was expect...
Disclosure up front: I took a Coursera class led by Prof. Bruce Holsinger two years ago.This is the second of Bruce Holsinger's books featuring poet John Gower as a detective. Like A Burnable Book, the first tale, this book is rich in historical detail and entertaining characters.There are a couple ...
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