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The Plague Letters by V.L. Valentine
Did not finish book. Stopped at 10%.
This book should have hit me in all the right places:
- historical fiction
- plagues
- deaths that ain't caused by said plague
BUT I just struggled with this from the get-go.
Set in 1655 London, everyone is trying to avoid the plague sweeping the nation and very quickly all deaths were to be treated as plague now (sound familiar...?), except when our lad Symon (the Rector and the only one who seems to care to about the dead) notices a familiar face lying in the mass grave. Mary's death had been ruled as the plague but the shorn hair and lacerations on her wrist and ankles said otherwise.
Time to don their best amateur sleuthing hats and find out what the hell is going on.
I loved the premise but found the characters difficult to follow or even like in most cases so this was a bit of a struggle bus.
A lot of people will love this. It just wasn't for me.
- historical fiction
- plagues
- deaths that ain't caused by said plague
BUT I just struggled with this from the get-go.
Set in 1655 London, everyone is trying to avoid the plague sweeping the nation and very quickly all deaths were to be treated as plague now (sound familiar...?), except when our lad Symon (the Rector and the only one who seems to care to about the dead) notices a familiar face lying in the mass grave. Mary's death had been ruled as the plague but the shorn hair and lacerations on her wrist and ankles said otherwise.
Time to don their best amateur sleuthing hats and find out what the hell is going on.
I loved the premise but found the characters difficult to follow or even like in most cases so this was a bit of a struggle bus.
A lot of people will love this. It just wasn't for me.