Emily M. (nnaylime) - reviewed on 5/25/2010 + 14 more book reviews

** spoiler alert ** Henry II's Mistress of the Art of Death is summoned to identify bones purportedly belonging to King Arthur and Guinevere. SIGN ME UP!

That out of the way, I wasn't nearly as fond of this book as I was of the two that preceded it, though it did pick up at the end, it dragged at the beginning and I began to see a bit of odd redundancy between this book and the previous.

There's more than one villain--however one is always with the church; one of the villains will be a woman; one of the villains will speak Latin; one of the villains will be non-culpable due to insanity. Menopause and insanity go hand-in-hand (and not just from the perspective of the contemporaries [which I could excuse:], but as an actual OPTION [that really angered me, but there were enough other redeeming factors to keep me from giving the book a lower rating.:])

What I did really like about the book was the nail-biting climax, that Henry II redeemed himself at the end (as he always does [in his way:]) while bringing a great deal of humanity to the crown, and the over-arching real mystery related to King Arthur, which is something in which I've long-been fascinated.

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