![]() Luca for now is too good to be true, but has potential. Frieze edges it for me as favourite at present, but Ishraq may become equally engaging as we get to know her more. The parts that worked best for me were Gregory’s effortless introduction of historical nuggets – like the esoteric understanding of the new number zero – and the development of the lead characters. ![]() Future books will concern other adventures with magic and witchcraft, and no doubt romance and strife between the protagonists. The main point, one feels at the end, has been to introduce us to four attractive lead characters: Luca and Frieze, with their female counterparts Isolde, an aristocratic beauty, and Ishraq, Isolde’s muslim servant. ![]() This plot, however, resolves early, and a picaresque tale unfolds ending with a werewolf mystery. ![]() ![]() First in a series for young adults, Changeling follows Luca, an Italian orphan adopted by the Church, and his investigations into supernatural happenings.Īt first the book seems a huis clos, with Luca and his boisterous servant Frieze uncomfortably settled in a nunnery afflicted – or blessed? – by visionaries and nuns bearing stigmata. ![]()
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