by Mitchell James Kaplan
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I've always been pretty much terrified of the Spanish Inquisition (anyone a Poe fan?) and have steered clear of literature written about it. I just couldn't take the gore that was usually associated with it. I'm SO glad to break that pattern with this book. I was asked to read and review by the auth...
Luis de Santángel is chancellor to King Fernando (Ferdinand) of Aragon but he is also a third generation Christian, converso, but when the Spanish Inquisition starts in full force it’s not safe to have Jewish connections. At the same time Luis grows curious about his Jewish heritage and starts to se...
My thoughts:This was such a beautifully written book, readers often say that it felt like they were there. But this one truly brought that out. There was a movie slowly playing in my head while reading this book.Luis de Santángel is rich and powerful, but three generations back he was a Jew and bein...
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"He had fought his entire life for acceptance and dignity in a society where neither was his birthright. To abandon that struggle, to walk away from his achievements, would be to hand a victory to those who wished to deny his humanity." Luis de Santángel is chancellor to King Ferdinand, but he is al...
This book was amazing - so it gets five stars! The writing style was both informative and magnificently vivid. The reader sees Spain at the end of the 1400s during the Spanish Inquisition. You see it, you feel it and you smell it. The colors, the smells, the textures, the grit the sounds, both the b...
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