![]() The paragraphs are wonderfully descriptive, but Maitland never goes overboard. Without beating me over the head with historical knowledge, I felt like Maitland was building up the world of 1348 England around me. Instead of sharing stories, the characters in this tale hide their pasts. Though they travel to pilgrimage sites, they are not pilgrims. Before long, Camelot reluctantly becomes a leader of a group of fugitives, a story teller, a mountebank, a pair of Venetian musicians, a Jew in hiding, and a seer. ![]() The first character we meet in this book is Camelot, a seller of fake relics (a cottage industry in the fourteenth century). But as I got deeper into the book, I started to think that it would be a lot like the Tales if Chaucer had been a horror or mystery writer rather than a bawdy comic. Company of Liars is absorbing, educational, and frightening in the best way.Ĭompany of Liars has been compared to Chaucer’s The Canterbury Tales. Not only can she take me back in time, but she can terrify me with the mysteries that she cooks up. ![]() I continue to be amazed at the depth of the worlds that Maitland creates in her books. ![]()
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