Mooched from a bookmooch friend.Not the cover on mine.

Ever since I read The Gypsies by Jan Yoors in my late teens, I have been fascinated by the Romany people, so I was tempted to mooch this book a few years ago.

I wasn't expecting it to be set at the time of the Inquisition, and I had never really connected the fate of the Gypsies to that of the Jews during that time, so I was doubly intrigued.
Unfortunately I struggled with the hero here. Presumably meant to be an alpha hero, he had certain characteristics of a beta and it didn't work for me. I have nothing against Beta heroes, and often prefer them, but here the sensitivity of a beta hero was all for himself, it seemed. Impulsive and reckless, instead of being in control and taking care of things, his actions seem to worsen the situation repeatedly.
There was also a rather frantic pace to the whole book - one catastrophe after the other, and then careening on to the next. An exhausting read. Eventually I reconciled myself to that and did finish.
Unexpectedly, I found myself thinking about the book quite a bit after finishing it, especially the setting and the historical aspects. My own family's history was shaped by some of those events.