Company of Liars

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My other quibble with Company of Liars is the amount of hype around the characters' so-called secrets. Most of these secrets are far too obvious. I'm particularly disappointed with the final secret, the twist involving Camelot and his past--it's just so unoriginal and predictable that it's disappointing. Now, the twist itself makes sense within the context of the plot ... it's just a bit of a let down after such an enjoyable story otherwise. Writing as KJ Maitland, her new historical thriller 'Rivers of Treason', the 3rd in her Jacobean quartet, is set in 1607. Daniel Pursglove finds himself again embroiled in murder in the aftermath of the infamous Gunpowder Plot. The 1st book in the series is 'The Drowned City', and 2nd 'Traitor in the Ice' are also published by Headline. Besides, if you can read the future, you can read the past for they are but ends of the same thread, and I always take great care that no one should know anything of me except my present.

Liars and Thieves (A Company of Liars short story) Liars and Thieves (A Company of Liars short story)

God's hand can be seen in any occurrence for those who are determined to find it there, but then again, so can the devil's”

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There was a new king and his name was pestilence. And he had created a new law - thou shalt do anything to survive.” Superstitions of the era influence the journey. They believe in witches and the supernatural. They think a wolf or werewolf is following them. Dramatic tension is maintained by wondering what evils will befall the group. The narrative is driven by the sequential uncovering of secrets. The tone is eerie. The reader will feel a sense of foreboding. We know something bad is going to happen and are waiting for the axe to fall. I was very surprised by this book. I wasn't feeling it a few "chapters" in but as I kept reading, it was like a puzzle..where you have the outline but not the middle pieces or the middle pieces are just too the same to make sense.. In this extraordinary novel, Karen Maitland delivers a dazzling reinterpretation of Chaucer's Canterbury Tales—an ingenious alchemy of history, mystery, and powerful human drama.

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I truly believed that the creation of hope was the greatest of all the arts, the noblest of all the lies.” Maitland’s novel is a juicy concoction of a medieval historical fiction novel mixed with spiritualism, magic, and mystery dumped into a pot of a fairy tale/fable core served to adults versus the Disney crowd (fear not: it is not a fantasy novel and more on the historical fiction end). “Company of Liars” transports the reader to a dark, rainy, medieval forest on foot with the many characters of the story despite if the sun is shining outside your own window. One can almost hear the thunder clap. “Company of Liars” has a simple plot (various travelers come together by twists of fate passing through England); and yet the novel is gripping and quite entertaining with strong visuals and emotional threads. Five 'deceptive' stars for a truly fascinating book that cuts across multiple genres and tells a story of nine people each with a secret and a dark past that they will do anything to conceal. But what will catch up with this Company of Liars first. The plague or their own lies?This group will have to face superstition and mystery, and one by they will become victim to the child rune reader, who somehow compels each of her companions to tell their stories, or face the consequences. Forgotten the title or the author of a book? Our BookSleuth is specially designed for you. Visit BookSleuth There are many cruel men in this world. Men who rob and kill and prey on the weak, but at least they are honest. They do not claim it is God's will. They do not drive a man to despair and say they are doing it out of love for him. If they torture someone it is only in this world; they do not condemn him to hell to be tortured for all eternity. Only the priests and bishops do that.”

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PDF / EPUB File Name: Company_of_Liars_-_Karen_Maitland.pdf, Company_of_Liars_-_Karen_Maitland.epub Death by fire. That was something they all knew about, even those who hadn't seen it, hand't smelt the stench that hangs round a town for days, hadn't heard the screams that echo night after night through your dreams; even those who had not witnessed a burning had heard tell of it and shuddered.” Karen Maitland, who also writes as KJ Maitland, lives in the beautiful county of Devon and has a doctorate in psycholinguists. And the characters in this book felt just like XXI century people - and probably that's one of the reasons they seemed so likeable: you can identify with them! cm, kart. 558 S. Guter Zustand. In englischer Sprache. (In English) Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 550.Book Genre: British Literature, European Literature, Fantasy, Fiction, Historical, Historical Fiction, Horror, Medieval, Mystery, Thriller The plot was excellent, the storytelling was just amazing and the characters are ones you are not soon to forget. This is one of those that stay with you a while. I find myself missing Camelot the most. This novel vividly evokes the landscape of 14th-century England without putting too many 21st-century interpretations on actions and events." - Library Journal. We had taken her for granted until she was no longer there, like an ancient tree you don't truly see until it is felled, and then only from the empty space in the sky do you suddenly grasp its stature.”

Summary and reviews of Company of Liars by Karen Maitland

Oh dear, I am so glad I wasn't born during the Middle Ages. Karen Maitland makes you feel like you are there, with all the superstition, filth, disease and hypocrisy of the church that defined the time. The poor suffer mightily. The company that we find ourselves with are traveling merchants of a sort, the homeless and wretched who have come together for safety against the weather, the pestilence, (plague has broken out) and vicious robbers that roam the land. Over a year later, I just have to add my comment that I liked the ending. I just couldn't believe that Naigorm would allow herself to be captured and killed as she as such a sneaky B**ch. So her arriving at the door for me felt almost inevitable.

Hannah’s new novel is an homage to the extraordinary courage and endurance of Frenchwomen during World War II. There are clues throughout as to what is going to happen, not just what will happen next, but what will unfold throughout the rest of the story. Some of the hints are fairly large; most readers will probably guess ahead of the plot, but it was the pleasure of fitting everything together that kept my interest -- this and that I already knew, but what significance it could have... Ron Rash is renowned for his writing about Appalachia, but his latest book, The Caretaker, begins ... I had seen that errible look on a man's face before, on the faces of those being dragged to the gallows. Some scream and plead, some swear and curse, some go serenely, convinced that the open gates of Paradise await them. But the worst, the most chilling, are those who neither fight nor embrace it, but accept it, their faces fixed in a look of utter hopelessness and despair. Their eyes stare out at you as if they are already the eyes of a dead man, and not a dead man in Paradise, but one who is in purgatory or worse, far worse.” I want to leave you with a quote and I think an important antidote to the internalized shame that many of us carry :