The owl masters - Karen Maitland

We say: **

Interesting medieval portrait of village life. Depressingly it’s always rainy, muddy and the food is terrible…

The church is portrayed as the gangsters of their time with extortion being their preferred method. 1/10 of the starving peasants efforts are extracted regardless if they have enough to fill their “bairns” bellies or not.

Nothing like holding people’s entry ticket to heaven in your tight little fists…

In the whole though, its nothing like Company of Liars, the characters are far too numerous and sketchily formed for you to keep track (or actually even care) of their fate.

I found myself skipping whole chapters in a rush to get to the end and move on to a different book.

There is more interesting middle ages stuff out there.

Company of liars - Karen Maitland

We say: ****

What a treat!
A medieval adventure with atmosphere and pace galore.
The way each chapter is being told by a different character is slightly disorientating at first but once you get sucked into the story it definitively enriches the plot by adding a kaleidoscope of points of view.

The unexplained bit being all covered under the wide backed "magic" kills the narrative ever so slightly but i have gone ahead and bough all of the author's other books straight away so it didn’t affect me that much clearly.

Look forward to the rest.