Title: Much turgid melodrama in quasi medieval setting
Product review: The main protagonists are ostensibly medieval people with very modern sensibilities in a setting with the trappings of 12th century medieval England by an author with very little understanding of the actual world.The big secret the chief villains go to such lengths to conceal is a conspiracy that assumes the conspirators could foresee the consequences of what they conspired to so they knew what the immediate consequences of their deed would be.Piffle.That kind of foreknowledge is deadly to historical fiction; it plants the author right in the reader's field of view.All this swirls around the building of a gothic cathedral. If that's what interests you, read David Macaulay's Cathedral instead. It's much shorter, is better researched, and is accompanied by nice sketches.
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