Title: A book with strong character.
Review: This book is good, strong historical fiction. The story of unfortunate young Leo gripped me from beginning to end. I had to see how it turned out! I won't give a summary, though, because the other reviewers took care of that quite well.The characters are all well developed and interesting. As another reviewer noted, the character of Rainald is especially intriguing, being much more complex then he at first appears. And Leo shows several very good traits; humility, respect and politeness (even when it's hard), honesty, and lots of forgiveness. This was hard for him at first, but his character grows, even while he is under the thumb of his conniving and callous Uncle Rolf. His upbringing and training at the Abbey kept him from ending up a little Rolf, himself.All in all, very worth while.
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