Time to take a break from Ellis Peters' Cadfael novels, after the twelfth, The Raven in the Foregate. Some of the characters are starting to sound all too familiar: "Oh look, another Young Person In Disguise." And I know I wanted to see Cadfael wrong at some point, but I meant wrong about who he decides to trust; in this one he's just slow to notice crucial details, for no reason than to draw the plot out, as far as I can tell.
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#2 :: Kate wrote on October 15, 2002 at 7:23 PM:
I dunno. You didn't like the beginning, I didn't like the middle and the ending...
#3 :: Ginger wrote on October 17, 2002 at 11:05 AM:
I've read pretty much all of the Brother Cadfael novels, and while they make good light reading, after a certain point they do begin to all blur together.
You're probably wise to take a break and return to them later. I wish I had done the same partway through reading them.
#4 :: Kate wrote on October 17, 2002 at 5:49 PM:
The annoying thing is that I had taken a break for a while (before An Excellent Mystery, I hadn't read one since March). I don't know if it's the two-in-near-proximity thing or just that these ones weren't all that good. But yeah, definitely must put these away for a while. (They're just so tempting because they're so short...)
I'm reading Sherlock Holmes now and it's going down much better, though I foresee having to take breaks for that, too.
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Ah, see, this is the second one I read, and it's the one that seemed a bit enh-y to me, so maybe there's actually something slightly off with the book.