{"id":6079,"date":"2016-09-19T17:41:24","date_gmt":"2016-09-19T21:41:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/?p=6079"},"modified":"2021-12-15T21:21:25","modified_gmt":"2021-12-16T02:21:25","slug":"the-guilt-of-innocents","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/archives\/6079","title":{"rendered":"The Guilt of Innocents"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Guilt of Innocents<\/a><\/em> (2006) Candace Robb<\/a><\/p>\n

\"guilt-of-innocents\"<\/a>Set in England in 1372<\/p>\n

A river pilot falls into a the Ouse during a skirmish with students (male) from the Minster School. When pulled from the river he is found to have cuts that start bleeding just as head of a competing and rival school comes into his presence. <\/p>\n

\u2018It is natural that you would resent Nicholas for threatening your income.\u2019 <\/p>\n

John gave an elaborate shrug. \u2018The status and funding of St Peter\u2019s School are Chancellor Thomas Farnilaw\u2019s responsibilities. I am merely the schoolmaster. I\u2019ve no cause to resent Master Nicholas. I am glad that Abbot Campian is giving him sanctuary.\u2019 <\/p>\n

Owen believed John did resent Nicholas, but that his feelings embarrassed him, being of a mercenary nature.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

And the boy who was at the heart of the skirmish has disappeared.<\/p>\n

This was a very interesting mystery, in which things changed unexpectedly as your perspective changed. <\/p>\n

In his mind he felt as if he\u2019d been looking at her upside down all his life, and suddenly he\u2019d been righted and saw that she was the very opposite of all he\u2019d believed her to be. He tried to retrieve his old love, but her smell, her cruelty, her lies kept crowding his head.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I also very much enjoyed the growth of the relationship between Jasper and Owen. <\/p>\n

In the space between the hall and kitchen doors, beneath the stars, he paused. \u2018He\u2019s my son, there\u2019s no question of that,\u2019 he said. \u2018When I thought he was dead\u2014\u2019 His breath caught. \u2018If Sir Baldwin hadn\u2019t been there I would have thrust deep into (the man)\u2019s heart and watched him bleed to death.\u2019<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

As always, there was many little bits about life and religion that were fascinating (to me at least).<\/p>\n

He\u2019d feared even imagining \u2018the something worse\u2019 because if evil thoughts were sins then thoughts had power, just as charms did.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Folk enjoyed nothing so much as someone else\u2019s trouble except perhaps talking of things they knew nothing about.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I very much enjoyed this series, and this book was especially good. (I didn’t much care for the books set in Wales, where Lucy didn’t make much of an appearance.)
\nRating: 8.5\/10<\/strong><\/p>\n

Published by Diversion Books<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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