Review: Inaccuracies abound
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 10 2, 2013
The author tells how he reordered a few historical events to fit the story - fair enough, but the whole story revolves around a knight, trained by a Japanese martial arts expert over a century before Marco Polo reached China. He even had paper walls and tatami floors, something not found in Europe for hundreds of years. I found the discussion between two knights about possums and sloths amusing as those animals come from Australasia and the Americas. The Islamic plot in 12th century England is interesting, but how two house servants, from opposing Baronies, arranged clandestine meetings in the night when they would be living many miles apart and with no access to horses is beyond my understanding. Perhaps they jumped on their mopeds. There were more inconsistencies, but enough said.Having said all of that, even though I thought of giving up more than once, I did read the book to the end, hence the three stars.