Advantages: Exciting, with lots of new and interesting characters Disadvantages: Disadvantages: the conclusion is a little limp, plot sometimes feels contrived
...in love with Genevieve, a heretic girl whom he finds chained up in the castle dungeons and refuses to give up to be publically burned. Robbie becomes infatuated with her as well, and finds his values and loyalties to his friend Thomas tested when Thomas shelters the girl from the Church's wrath. Thomas quickly finds himself excommunicated by the Church, and is forced to abandon his command, fleeing across the countryside with his persecuted lover. ... ...was once home to the Heretic Cathars and rumoured keepers of the grail before they were scourged from the earth centuries earlier. Is it possible that he has found the real grail? Thomas seeks refuge in a Cistercian monastery before being forced to flee, falling in with a ragged group of coredors (bandits) in his desperate attempt to surivive. Cornwell is successful in creating a sense of urgency and peril, and a feeling that the fibres of the wider ...
Burning_Darkness 12.06.2009
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