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Lonely Planet Normandy and D-Day Beaches Road Trips
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Homicide Hérault (Hardy Durkin Travel Mystery #6)
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Veteran trekker Hardy Durkin leads his first bike tour group to Béziers in the South of France,...
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La Seduction: How The French Play the Game Of Life
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France is a seductive country, seductive in its elegance, its beauty, its sensual pleasures, and its...
David McK (3372 KP) rated The Fallen Sword (The Hundred Years War, #3) in Books
Aug 3, 2024 (Updated Aug 3, 2024)
By which I mean I was expecting something Cornwell-like; an action-adventure set during the period of The Hundred Years War between France and England over the throne of France.
What I got instead was a (I felt) slow-burner of a mystery over three novels, with the war really only providing the backdrop as the herald Simon Merrivale investigates a shadowy conspiracy amongst the nobles of both sides
The fault in expectation, of course, was wholly mine.
This follows on from the largely-Scotland set A Clash of Lions, itself following on from A Flight of Arrows, with Merrivale now back in France as the English besiege the key city of Calais. I have to say, I did find parts of this novel to drag on a bit: for me, it never really gripped me as much as parts of the previous entry did. One of those novels (and series) that I'm happy enough to have read, but not to the point where I would - yet - search out more by the author.