Lindsay Townsend
Autor de A Knight's Vow
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Conocimiento común
- Nombre canónico
- Townsend, Lindsay
- Género
- female
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- Obras
- 22
- Miembros
- 153
- Popularidad
- #136,480
- Valoración
- 4.0
- Reseñas
- 18
- ISBNs
- 33
Dressed in men's clothing and well able to use the sacred bow of Saint Sebastian to root out demons and Man's evil, and bring the restless dead within God's grace, Yolande walks alone tied by the Church to an enigmatic but blessed mission of Seven. It is Geraint, itinerant Fool and tumbler, who is bewitched by her sense of vision and her self-belief, and in her company learns to see in himself what he can become.
A romance? Yes, but don't look here for mere sultry looks and fluttering hearts. The air between the lovers sparks with wise-cracks as they travel afoot along the bridleways of an England beset by plague and worry. Villages and hamlets in this true land aren't quaint, but of wattle & daub and midden heaps where families try to cultivate an existence as much from the greenwood as their field-strips, and priests question themselves and their faith in the face of pestilence and death.
I found the detail fascinating, from the dual use of plants and scriptures for medicinal purposes, to the mores of the period, to the vivid descriptions of sunlit dells carpeted with heady-scented violets, and the loneliness of a hill tower from another age casting a darkness through life and soul.
It was intriguing, too, to draw from Yolande's and Geraint's thoughts and actions what, through our 21st century prism, we'd now term psychology and detective work, as well as the intrinsic Mediaeval belief in the Devil's ability to turn men from the path of a righteousness that had less to do with cerebral enlightenment and more to do with aiding their fellow man. It's a measure of the author's skills that for the reader credibility and the suspension of disbelief were maintained throughout.
As Yolande and Geraint, and the imminent arrival of their child, travel with their newly acquired cart into the greenwood, I hope not to be waving them goodbye. They and their world are too good to lose and should be the start of a series. highly recommended.… (más)