{"id":12556,"date":"2020-02-28T15:51:26","date_gmt":"2020-02-28T20:51:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/?p=12556"},"modified":"2024-07-04T17:07:20","modified_gmt":"2024-07-04T21:07:20","slug":"a-gift-of-sanctuary-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/archives\/12556","title":{"rendered":"A Gift of Sanctuary"},"content":{"rendered":"

A Gift of Sanctuary<\/a><\/em> (1998) Candace Robb<\/a> (Owen Archer)<\/p>\n

\"A<\/a>Set in Wales in 1371<\/p>\n

Owen, Geoffery Chaucer, and Michaelo are accompanying Sir Robert, Owen’s father-in-law, in pilgrimage to St. David’s in Wales.<\/p>\n

Owen and Chaucer are to also going to Wales for the Duke of Lancaster to determine if the steward at Cydweli Castle is secretly working with the French.<\/p>\n

(W)e do not yet know whether Gruffydd ap Goronwy is a traitor. He was accused by the mother of the Lord of Pembroke. Though she married a Hastings, she will ever be a Mortimer, and the Mortimers are fond of accusing their enemies of treason. It is a tidy solution.\u2019<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

As a point of clarification, I’m re-reading this series before bed. I mention that because even the 2nd (or third?) time around, I still found the story a little confusing. <\/p>\n

He is of an old Marcher family\u2026\u2019 <\/p>\n

\u2018\u2026 which means they are excellent judges of the direction in which the wind blows.\u2019<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

There are a lot of people and I often ran them together, and it initially wasn’t clear who the injured pilgrim was and who the dead man was and a lot of it just ran together for me.<\/p>\n

However, as noted, that could be because I’m reading this series before bed, and could very well be losing the thread of the story. But I didn’t do that with the earlier books in the series.<\/p>\n

Also, this book is all Owen–Lucie only appears when mentioned by the other characters, and I missed her and Jaspar and Magda. Yes, Owen would certainly have been sent on missions, so it wasn’t unreasonable. It just wasn’t quite as interesting without Lucie.<\/p>\n

One of the things I love about this series are the historical glimpses of a world so very different from ours.<\/p>\n

\u2018The good steward\u2019s bastard? Seed sown in youth, reaped in middle age, eh?\u2019 <\/p>\n

\u2018Here they make little note of whether a child was born within the bonds of marriage and often acknowledge their natural children.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

It’s easy to think that the puritanical standards so common in the US in the past weren’t common around the world for much of history.<\/p>\n

We also get more of Michaelo’s redemption. It’s a slow arc, and he’s still sometimes vain and often seeks comfort, but he’s a completely different man from the first book.<\/p>\n

Publisher: Diversion Books
\nRating: 7.5\/10<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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