A review by alexandranoelle
A Death in the Venetian Quarter by Alan Gordon

3.0

Well, it took me two tries to read this book. After the first hard push to get through the beginning, I enjoyed the middle pretty well and was absolutely in love with this book by the end. Now this difficulty could partly be due to the fact that I couldn't get my hands on the first two books - I started with the third one, so didn't know as well the characters or the historical context. Luckily, I've read some non-fiction in the past on the Crusades and Byzantine Empire, which gave me a bit of contextual knowledge. Now that I have a better idea of how it is used in the book however, and after that ending, I'm rearing to read the next book in the series.