{"id":1750,"date":"2010-06-08T12:58:10","date_gmt":"2010-06-08T17:58:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/?p=1750"},"modified":"2021-05-30T21:43:47","modified_gmt":"2021-05-31T01:43:47","slug":"veil-of-lies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/archives\/1750","title":{"rendered":"Veil of Lies"},"content":{"rendered":"

Veil of Lies<\/a><\/em> (2008) Jeri Westerson<\/a><\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>The complete title of the book is Veil of Lies: A Medieval Noir<\/em>, which is part of what interested me in the book. I like historical fantasies, though I often take umbrage at the lengths to which authors will go to create an historical detective. but they’re fun, so I’m often willing to take a chance on them.<\/p>\n

Is this book a noir? It didn’t particularly feel that way to me. It was definitely a mystery of the “private detective” sort, and the actions of the characters were often dark, but instead of feeling particularly noir, they seemed more a characteristic of their times.<\/p>\n

Doesn’t mean the story was bad, just that I didn’t think it quite qualified as a noir.<\/p>\n

Crispen Guest was a knight who fell from grace and barely missed the death penalty for treason. Now he is a man about town, serving in many ways as a thief-taker, and has earned the nickname the Tracker. When he is hired to look into a case of infidelity, things turn ugly when he discovers the truth of the infidelity, and that the man who hired him has been murdered.<\/p>\n

Was the book good? It wasn’t bad, and it was enjoyable. Like I said, it didn’t really feel like a noir, and I think if you went in simply expecting a medieval fantasy you’d be better off.
\nRating: 6\/10<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Veil of Lies (2008) Jeri Westerson The complete title of the book is Veil of Lies: A Medieval Noir, which is part of what interested me in the book. I like historical fantasies, though I often take umbrage at the lengths to which authors will go to create an historical detective. but they’re fun, so […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"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":[2,291],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1750","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fantasy","category-paper"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/piQkW-se","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":5607,"url":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/archives\/5607","url_meta":{"origin":1750,"position":0},"title":"Detective Strongoak and the Case of the Dead Elf","author":"Michelle","date":"January 22, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"Detective Strongoak and the Case of the Dead Elf (2014) Terry Newman I started this months ago, wasn't in the mood for it, and then picked it up again when I needed something different. 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