Review: Good solid entertainment
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 08 3, 2013
I'm always relieved when a book written by a friend turns out to be a good read. Then I can post an honestly positive review for it. This book is well constructed, well-researched, and fun to read. I'm no medieval expert, but I'm interested in the period, play with the SCA when I have the time, belong to the Historical Novel Society and know enough to catch out a writer who is fudging the details. Potatoes in the stew and tomatoes in the pasta give me fits. This is known as 'potato rage' in some circles.Kirkwood knows her stuff. All the delightful little details of daily life in the middle ages ring true from the description of dress to where to sit at a banquet. The people don't act like modern people plopped down in a different era. They behave in ways appropriate to their time/place no matter how annoying that may be to us. That being said, the universal human emotions that are never bound to time/place are richly depicted.If you enjoy a good medieval historical, I recommend this. Kirkwood never puts a foot wrong throughout the entire book. Now I'm on to another of her books, a time/slip story called--ta-da! A Slip in Time.Disclosure: I bought and paid for this book with my own money what I earned with gainful employment.