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Apr 01, 2011
Lisa (Harmonybites)
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It took me a while to warm to this novel of 16th Century Scotland, the first in a series, but one that could stand alone. I wouldn't call it a slog exactly--it's never dull, but it is at times difficult. It's written in omniscient with a lot of archaic vocabulary and spelling, Scottish dialect, snatches of foreign phrases in several languages and classical allusion and kept me looking up words in a dictionary every few pages--and in almost all novels I never have to look up even one: chumbling,
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