Review: Almost four stars!
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 12 11, 2013
This is a nice story set back in time and place. Funnily enough, I've been reading a quite different book (The Ian Fleming Files Operation Parsifal by Damian Stevenson) and both dedicated quite a bit of space to the invention and technique of the crossbow! However the book is really a manifest against traditions that no longer have any sense and a testimonial of the strength of women.In this story, a woman gives birth to triplet boys. She and her daughter (really at the young daughter's insistance) defy the tradition whereby only the firstborn would be allowed to survive. The boys grow up going out only once every three days...their first love stories are of course a comedy of errors, but the whole family are always afraid. Until the end (a clever one) we wonder whether they or the whole family will pay with their lives. A simply told story but I enjoyed it.(less)