Review: Following Dante's Footsteps
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 02 3, 2012
Devil's Lair is a well written book.  When you read this book, you will learn several arcane things about a knight's armor, books, horses, and other topics that are characteristic of the 1300's.  The main drawback of this book to me is that the author expects the reader to be a Latin scholar, or at least have a working knowledge of Latin.  There were many passages in this book, some rather long, that were in Latin and there was no translation provided by the author.  Some of the passages were apparently germane to the plot, but because I don't know Latin, in some cases it was difficult to follow the plot.  After this happened several times, I felt less like a reader and more like an outsider looking in.If a new edition of this book was issued with these Latin phrases translated, I would give this book 5 stars.  Without the translations, which caused difficulty for me to read it and enjoy it, I give this book 3 stars.