Books read in February (and a bit of March)

[ladyofastolat]

Comments

[puddleshark]

I quite like the sound of the Sir Robert Carey books. Are they very bloody though? (Thinking about the period and place they are set in).

[ladyofastolat]

I'm struggling to answer that, since different readers' tolerances vary so much. It's entirely possible that I sailed happily on past something that you would recoil from. But I don't THINK they're particularly bloody. Yes, there are murders and reiver violence. There's a hanging, drawing and quartering in one of the London books, and some sightings of people post-torture. But the violence isn't described in long and loving detail. The viewpoint characters live in a society in which this sort of violence is commonplace, so it tends to get mentioned in a matter of fact manner, then moved on past. There have been one or two scenes when I have begun to squirm uncomfortably, but the narrative backed off before things got too bad.

[puddleshark]

Thanks! My tolerances are definitely lower than average, but if there isn't excessive detail, I should be fine. I'll give the first book a go and see how I get on.