When I’d reached my first stop, I was raved to the friend that I visited about the book that I was listening to, telling her to go and buy the thing, even though I was only maybe two or three hours into the story. I spent a good bit of that time (the whole recording is 7 hours and 21 minutes) in Restoration London with an apothecary’s apprentice and his best friend, the baker’s son, Tom. The first leg of my trip was 4 hours to the first stop and another 6 hours to the second stop. Then I went on a road trip, and having recently been reintroduced to audiobooks by a friend who started me on Huck Finn, I decided to go to the local library and see what audiobooks I might be able to bring with me to make the hours pass-and I found this book. Then when I got home I remembered that I had a sample of the book, and read the first two chapters through, and debated more seriously still purchasing the paperback. One that had me reading the paperback of this book-newly out-as I walked it back to its place in the store. Kevin Sands’ The Blackthorn Key, starts with the words “Let’s build a canon.” A promising beginning.
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