![]() ![]() Who wants to read a novel with so few surprises? Near the end, Kent sticks in the gratuitous but expected scene of first lovemaking (ho hum!). These are all folks I've seen before in numerous historical novels, and that familiarity makes the plot, overall, too predictable. The Welshman, Thomas, is the strong, silent type, taller than tall, stronger than strong, silenter than silent (at least until he falls in love-then it seems he can't stop blabbing his secrets). The lead baddie, Bloodlow, is crueller than cruel and meaner than mean. ![]() Her cousin Patience, on the other hand, is a the stereotypical jealous harpy intent on keeping Martha-her cousin-in her inferior place. Martha, the protagonist, is what one would call a "spirited" girl-in other words, the stereotypical ancestral feminist. What put me off was, I think, the rather stereotypical characters. ![]() ![]() The story of Charles II's relentless pursuit of the men directly responsible for his father's beheading, even to the extent of sending assassins to find them in the American colonies, is certainly an intriguing one, and Kent does a fine job of describing the hardscrabble life of the New England settlers. The Wolves of Andover serves as a prequel to Kent's The Heretic's Daughter, but it falls a bit short. ![]()
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