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sophia_sol) wrote2016-07-11 05:57 pm
sophia_sol) wrote2016-07-11 05:57 pm
The Hermit of Eyton Forest, by Ellis Peters
This was the only Brother Cadfael book I hadn't read! And now I've read it, and I'm done the entire series, and I don't have any more new Cadfael books to look forward to in my future, sadface. But what a good series! And I now own ALL of the books so I can reread whenever I want. Maybe I should make the effort to reread this series but this time in order, so I can follow the long arc of the Stephen-Mathilda civil war B-plot.
Anyways!
This book is a good entry in the series, not one of my favourites, but definitely solid. Most things worked out as I hoped/expected, and I enjoyed the various characters. My one sadness was that we never get to find out what will happen to Hiltrude! She ends the book still single and still stuck in the power of her pretty unpleasant father. Everyone else's story gets a satisfactory wrap-up but hers doesn't. And I LIKE her and I want her to be happy!
I'm holding out hope that a goodly number of years in the future when Richard's actually properly of marrying age he and Hiltrude make a pleasant and solid and happy marriage of convenience with each other. After Richard's grandmother is dead so they have the pleasure of knowing she went to her grave thwarted! (Either that or Hiltrude gets to marry that young man she likes who's briefly mentioned, though I'm not sure how she'd go about pulling that one off since her father so disapproves. And anyway she doesn't sound that irrevocably attached to him imo, though that might just be my aro goggles showing)
Anyways!
This book is a good entry in the series, not one of my favourites, but definitely solid. Most things worked out as I hoped/expected, and I enjoyed the various characters. My one sadness was that we never get to find out what will happen to Hiltrude! She ends the book still single and still stuck in the power of her pretty unpleasant father. Everyone else's story gets a satisfactory wrap-up but hers doesn't. And I LIKE her and I want her to be happy!
I'm holding out hope that a goodly number of years in the future when Richard's actually properly of marrying age he and Hiltrude make a pleasant and solid and happy marriage of convenience with each other. After Richard's grandmother is dead so they have the pleasure of knowing she went to her grave thwarted! (Either that or Hiltrude gets to marry that young man she likes who's briefly mentioned, though I'm not sure how she'd go about pulling that one off since her father so disapproves. And anyway she doesn't sound that irrevocably attached to him imo, though that might just be my aro goggles showing)