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Title: A Mortal Bane by Roberta Gellis ISBN: 0-8125-7236-X Publisher: Tor Books Pub. Date: 17 September, 2001 Format: Mass Market Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.65 (17 reviews)
Rating: 1
Summary: Could have been told in a short story format
Comment: It has taken me about three months to read this 400 page book. This story is told in a time-span of about two weeks in April of 1137 in about 15 chapters and never once leaves the original site where it began. As the chapters changed, I thought we were going into a new month. Yet, we were only going in to a new day. If you like to be completely strung along and bored for hours/days/weeks, then this is the book for you. If you like action, fantasy, intrigue, and real meaty History and adventure, this is definitely NOT the book for you!
Rating: 4
Summary: Good Book
Comment: No one can bring you into a time period better than Roberta Gellis. It's also very interesting that the people she writes about are average folks, so the reader gets a feel for daily life of the time period. Interesting characters and a good old-fashioned murder mystery make this good reading. The only reason this book didn't get 5 stars is Gellis sometimes gets a tad bogged down in speculative conversations about politics of the time. It's hard to follow, with the people being discussed not actual characters in the book, they just are spoken of. Sometimes referred to by their names, sometimes by their titles. Gellis obviously finds the minutia of the politics of the time fascinating, but for the average reader with only basic background knowledge, it can be just plain confusing. Fortunately, she only falls into this trap 3 times and soon enough we get back to Magdelene and her would-be lover Bell. I can't wait for the next book in the series to find out what happens between them next.
Rating: 5
Summary: Murder in the Middle Ages
Comment: No one writes about the middle ages with the confidence of Roberta Gellis. In this book, the women of a high-class whorehouse are imperiled when a messenger from the pope is killed on the doorstep of the Church next door. They must find the killer or medieval views on the evilness of whores will see them hung. Gellis' book gives us a clear, unsentimental window into the workings of the world as it was -- without detracting from the charisma of her characters. The noble born whoremistress, the knight who serves the Bishop of Winchester, and even the nasty-but-holy pryor from the church next door fill this tale with color. And it's a darn good mystery, too.
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Title: A Personal Devil: A Magdalene la Batarde Mystery by Roberta Gellis ISBN: 0312875932 Publisher: Forge Pub. Date: 07 September, 2002 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: Bone of Contention : A Magdalene la Batarde Mystery by Roberta Gellis ISBN: 0765305542 Publisher: Forge Pub. Date: 01 December, 2003 List Price(USD): $15.95 |
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Title: Thrice Bound by Roberta Gellis ISBN: 0671318349 Publisher: Baen Books Pub. Date: 31 July, 2001 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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Title: Bull God by Roberta Gellis ISBN: 0671578685 Publisher: Baen Books Pub. Date: 01 May, 2000 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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Title: Lucrezia Borgia and the Mother of Poisons by Roberta Gellis ISBN: 0765300206 Publisher: Forge Pub. Date: 01 September, 2003 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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