so-soWell. I'm not quite sure what I think of this, ultimately. The bad guys here are Welsh, in the period of Brad y Llyfrau Gleision, and have established basically a little Welsh commune in medieval style. The daughter of a Victorian clergyman is the heroine (though her mother was Jewish, she is also very Anglican Christian). It all... reads badly. There isn't any outright outage I can quote, I'm just uncomfortable with all of it. 1/2
I'm fairly sure that the Welsh guy complaining of the way the English treat the Welsh is going to turn out to be the bad guy here, for all that his words are portrayed as sounding reasonable. I'm getting very very uncomfortable.
It's also definitely a look to have a Victorian clergyman's daughter visit Wales and complain about Welsh people not being religious, given Brad y Llyfrau Gleision was 1847.
Welp, a character just got announced as “Arthur, Prince of Gwynedd“, and... this is a definite choice. This might be where I depart from this series, depending on how things go. Who knows, maybe it'll be amazing and not weird about “Wild Wales“ (quote) in a book set in the Victorian period, but I'm bracing to be severely exoticised and, thanks, I hate it.
pickAnother fun installment of the series. I like how mismatched Wendell and Emily are because it's always entertaining. Emily is her scholarly self and can't help but research her way into more trouble.
pickNovella about an Icelandic trader who travels to Mongolia in the 8th century and returns with a herd of horses led by a white mare.
A fascinating story and great fun exploring the people and places referred to.
pickI stalled in reading this because of personal stuff, but today seemed like the right day to get back to it. I read 150 pages of it in two big gulps, as usual with these books. It feels like a good place to leave the series, though I'm actually not sure if it's meant as a conclusion or not.
It was my #DoubleSpin book, though it still leaves me in search of a #BookSpinBingo. I really am not doing it on purpose this time...!
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1) snowflakes, they usually started to bloom around my birthday (end of March) where I grew up
2) tagged - the UK edition
