Dark Fire
1 journaler for this copy...
Journal Entry 1 by darkhorse4460 from Bletchingdon, Oxfordshire United Kingdom on Sunday, March 10, 2019
Purchased, along with Dissolution with intent to start reading this highly recommended series.
Journal Entry 2 by darkhorse4460 at Bletchingdon, Oxfordshire United Kingdom on Wednesday, April 3, 2019
OK I'm hooked! I read this directly after Dissolution which I enjoyed a great deal, and this is just as good. Another page turning Tudor thriller, this time set in the squalid, stinky, teeming, dangerous city of London during a sticky, hot summer in 1540. There's a louring atmosphere of impending storm, which relates as much to the political tensions as it does to the weather.
Just wanting a quite life, Matthew Shardlake becomes involved in two perilous investigations, along with his interesting new sidekick Barak. Betrayal, treachery and a whole range of diabolical weaponry seems to be lurking around every dark and smelly corner for our heroes. It's a bit relentless in places, but very enjoyable!
Samson does immerse you in Shardlake's world and it feels completely believable. I like the way we are seeing and feeling the life of ordinary people from all social classes, not just royalty and aristocrats. I will forgive the writer the sometimes formulaic way he describes people and reactions - oh dear 9 more bitten lips!!! - because he's such a stonking good storyteller.
On to number three now!!!
Just wanting a quite life, Matthew Shardlake becomes involved in two perilous investigations, along with his interesting new sidekick Barak. Betrayal, treachery and a whole range of diabolical weaponry seems to be lurking around every dark and smelly corner for our heroes. It's a bit relentless in places, but very enjoyable!
Samson does immerse you in Shardlake's world and it feels completely believable. I like the way we are seeing and feeling the life of ordinary people from all social classes, not just royalty and aristocrats. I will forgive the writer the sometimes formulaic way he describes people and reactions - oh dear 9 more bitten lips!!! - because he's such a stonking good storyteller.
On to number three now!!!