Shapeshifter Rom Series Including Two

It is annoying. All in all, I enjoyed this book but not enough for more than 3 stars.

Start by marking The Shapeshifters Lair (A Sister Fidelma Mystery Book 31) as Want to Read.

I didnt find the mystery engaging; the exposition of the mystery was tedious with too many seemingly unrelated complications, not all of which were tied together at the end.

Tremayne uses dialogue, interviews, and ratiocination to solve the mysteries, a technique I really like; however, because the settings are in ancient Ireland with uncommon personal and place names and center on a legal system unlike any were fami.

As a rule, Tremaynes complex dialogue flows pretty smoothly, but I found this more convoluted and stiffer, even at times awkward, than usual.

I often had to reread sentences to grasp their meaning, and there were too many textual errors, presumably the consequence of poor editing.

Shapeshifter Rom Series Including Two

On the one hand, I have to give it to Peter Tremayne for such stamina: 31 books in the series including two anthologies of short stories.

I have high praise for Tremaynes research on a period of European history that few people know about.

The period we called the Dark Ages was actually more interesting than ever.

On the other hand, as many other readers and reviewers know, keeping track.

On the other hand, as many other readers and reviewers know, keeping track of all the characters with strange sounding Irish and Saxon names that are rarely, if at all, used today is difficult.

For example, Beccnat, one of Fidelmas college classmate, references events that predates the first book and Act of Mercy (book 9).

The main plot of this book is a continuation of the events in The Seventh Trumpet.

Lastly, it has become tiring that Fidelma keeps having to remind people of her legal and social rank.

Yes, we know shes the daughter of a king and sister of another.

Therefore, if a character tries to play dominance games whether an abbot or a local lord, Fidelma is not shy in reminding you.

In this book, she turned the tables on the local lord in a sly way to the point where the lord cant do anything without looking petty and digging a bigger hole for himself.