{"id":146,"date":"2005-10-20T20:10:19","date_gmt":"2005-10-21T03:10:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/?p=146"},"modified":"2021-05-30T21:30:31","modified_gmt":"2021-05-31T01:30:31","slug":"the-merchants-partner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/archives\/146","title":{"rendered":"The Merchant’s Partner"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Merchant’s Partner<\/em> (1995) Michael Jecks<\/a><\/p>\n

\"The<\/a>This is the second Knights Templar Mystery, and I’m still undecided about whether I’ll continue the series. <\/p>\n

Again, story was good, and I loved all the historical details. However, there remain problems. As with the first book, there are very abrupt changes in point of view. One paragraph were are in one character’s mind, the next paragraph is from another character’s point of view. This is both jarring and confusing, although I didn’t have as many problems with the shifting point of view in this book as I did in the first.<\/p>\n

As the writing improved somewhat in this book, I am hoping that the third book will be better, and that at some point an editor grabbed Michael Jecks and made him stop shifting the point of view so abruptly.<\/p>\n

As I said, the story was good. Simon is visiting Sir Baldwin, when a the body of a local midwife is discovered. Simon and Sir Baldwin can find no real reason for her death, and must try to make the clues and theories fit together.<\/p>\n

As with the first book, I particularly like the cover. I think that they covers do a good job of setting the tone for the books.<\/p>\n

I also really liked the historical details. I can see how some people might find that annoying, but I found it interesting, and it doesn’t bother me in the slightest if a book goes off on a tangent and presents an historical lecture. I also appreciate the realism that Michael Jecks adds to the stories, about the stench of the homes in the winter, and how smoky the buildings were, and how insufficient the clothes were at protecting people from the cold. Details like that fascinate me, so I appreciate them in stories.<\/p>\n

All in all, the story is good, and the point of view problem isn’t nearly as bad in this book as in the previous. I just have not yet decided whether or not I’m willing to pay $7.50 a book to continue a series that I cannot find used.
\nRating: 6\/10<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Merchant’s Partner (1995) Michael Jecks This is the second Knights Templar Mystery, and I’m still undecided about whether I’ll continue the series. Again, story was good, and I loved all the historical details. However, there remain problems. As with the first book, there are very abrupt changes in point of view. One paragraph were […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[8,291],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-146","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mystery","category-paper"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/piQkW-2m","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":147,"url":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/archives\/147","url_meta":{"origin":146,"position":0},"title":"A Moorland Hanging","author":"Michelle","date":"October 21, 2005","format":false,"excerpt":"A Moorland Hanging (1996) Michael Jecks Okay, I give up. At least for now. Michael Jecks is a good storyteller, I will give him that, but his writing... The Merchant's Partner was sllightly better than The Last Templar as far as his writing style, but A Moorland Hanging is just\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Mystery"","block_context":{"text":"Mystery","link":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/archives\/category\/mystery"},"img":{"alt_text":"A Moorland Hanging","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.klishis.com\/Books\/images\/moorland%20hanging.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":92,"url":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/archives\/92","url_meta":{"origin":146,"position":1},"title":"The Last Templar","author":"Michelle","date":"July 10, 2005","format":false,"excerpt":"The Last Templar (1995) Michael Jecks This was an interesting book. The mystery was good, the story was good, and I quite liked the historical setting and the history lesson. The writing was, for the most part, very good, with one glaring exception. In this book Michael Jecks switches point\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Mystery"","block_context":{"text":"Mystery","link":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/archives\/category\/mystery"},"img":{"alt_text":"the last templar.jpg","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.klishis.com\/Books\/images\/last%20templar.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":215,"url":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/archives\/215","url_meta":{"origin":146,"position":2},"title":"Grave Peril","author":"Michelle","date":"March 27, 2006","format":false,"excerpt":"Grave Peril (2001) Jim Butcher The third book in The Dresden Files series occurs several months after the events of the last book, and introduces us to another of Harry Dresden's friends and companions, Michael, a Knight of the Cross. Michael is helping Harry put down an uprising of ghosts\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Fantasy"","block_context":{"text":"Fantasy","link":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/archives\/category\/fantasy"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/klishis.com\/reading\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/03\/Grave-Peril.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":1441,"url":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/archives\/1441","url_meta":{"origin":146,"position":3},"title":"100 Bullets: First Shot, Last Call","author":"Michelle","date":"October 27, 2009","format":false,"excerpt":"100 Bullets: First Shot, Last Call (2000) Brian Azzarello, Eduardo Risso I'm not sure how I feel about this. The premise is Noir Crime meets the graphic novel, and although the graphic novel part is well done, I'm not as sure about the noir crime bit. Your life has been\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Graphic Novels"","block_context":{"text":"Graphic Novels","link":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/archives\/category\/graphic-novels"},"img":{"alt_text":"first_shot_last_call","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/klishis.com\/reading\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/first_shot_last_call.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":4007,"url":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/archives\/4007","url_meta":{"origin":146,"position":4},"title":"Club Monstrosity","author":"Michelle","date":"September 3, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"Club Monstrosity (2013) Jesse Petersen I really wanted to like this book. The idea of it is marvelous: the monsters of the past: Dracula, the swamp thing, Dr. Frankenstein's monster--all these creatures exist, and they are in hiding and in group therapy of a sort, to get past their pasts.\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Fantasy"","block_context":{"text":"Fantasy","link":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/archives\/category\/fantasy"},"img":{"alt_text":"club-monstrosity","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/klishis.com\/reading\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/club-monstrosity-189x300.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":12776,"url":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/archives\/12776","url_meta":{"origin":146,"position":5},"title":"Who Speaks for the Damned","author":"Michelle","date":"April 20, 2020","format":false,"excerpt":"Who Speaks for the Damned (2020) C.S. Harris (Sebastian St. Cyr) Set in London in 1814 I have loved this series since the start, and generally adore her writing. However. Third Person Omniscient POV does NOT WORK if you are hiding a person's gender. It just DOESN'T. It is stilted\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "7.5\/10"","block_context":{"text":"7.5\/10","link":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/archives\/category\/7-5-10"},"img":{"alt_text":"Who Speaks for the Damned","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/klishis.com\/reading\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Who-Speaks-for-the-Damned.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]}],"jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=146"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=146"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=146"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=146"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}