Sitting in Angelina’s Tavern, Eddie LaCrosse’s winter evening is suddenly disturbed by a delivery. The delivery of a coffin to be precise. Obviously this piques the interest of the other tavern patrons. And it is a dark winter night, what better than a tale involving the noble King Marcus Drake, and his legendary Knights of the Double Tarn.
Dark Jenny - Alex Bledoe
I do enjoy these Eddie LaCrosse books. They are fun, but I have to say that the names sometimes make me wonder. It isn’t that I want to be reading long incomprehensible and made-up fantastic names. It is just, Bob Kay as an heroic knight? I’m just not sure about that.
I also much preferred the old style of cover. This version looks like a film/tv series badly novelised. Either that or a crappy romance. And this book is neither of those things.
It took me a couple of chapters to really get into this book, but I think that was because real life was intruding, because once I had the time to get stuck in this became a real page-turner. Although I did think that Eddie needed a slap upside the head on a couple of occasions. Which is good, I guess, cause it makes him much more real that way. And of course by the end of the book I did feel sorry for him, given how everything ended up, it really does help in establishing him as a world-weary cynic that we meet in the series as a whole.
But I still had my women issue with this book. Show Spoiler ▼
So that annoys me a little.
But overall this is a really enjoyable page-turner. And if you’ve read any of the other Eddie LaCrosse books and enjoyed them, then I’m sure you’ll enjoy this one too.
Other reviews: Graeme’s Fantasy Book review ; If you’ve read & reviewed this let me know in the comments and I’ll add your link.
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