Title: Strangely dislocating
Review: I was disappointed by this book. In the first place, it jumps to and fro between different character's points of view, and I've never liked that.In the second place, there were conspicuous, blatant parallels to the Reconquista of Spain and the career of El Cid. These made it very difficult for me to maintain my suspension of disbelief because they made it obvious that the events were artificial.And in the third place the author has a bizarre habit of concealing from the reader which character it is who is in a scene, even of deliberately misleading the reader as to what characters were present. In three cases characters were killed and the reader was left in doubt which characters had died. This despite the fact that none of the [surviving] characters in the story had any doubt at all. I found this very strange and off-putting.
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