Looking back to one's adolescence I remember the excitement of reading a newly-acquired Boys' Own adventure novel, titles like Ivanhoe, The Prisoner Of Zenda and The Riddle Of The Sands. One would find mystery, thrills, adventure, romance, evil villains and daring deeds. The genre has almost vanished but here is a fine example set in medieval France and England. A quest full of action and tension, a fun read not to be taken too seriously.

I picked this one up because of the blurb and the cover but I was kind of disappointed.

It's classified as a Historical Fiction/Mystery/Thriller and I love Historical Fiction when it's well written and this one was, I absolutely loved the writing style but I have a few comments.

While I loved the writing style, I didn't enjoy it as much as I would've liked to because there was a lack of dialogue and emotion so I didn't really connect to anything that was going on whether it was something happy or sad, so it didn't strike me as mysterious/thrilling and that took the fun out of reading it, it would've been a masterpiece, it just needed a bit more work.

Thank you @netgalley for this ARC in exchange for an honest review💕

Thank you NetGalley for a chance to review this book. This book is 200 pages and leaves you hanging at the end. There are the Clay brothers who are esquires. They and their friends are killed by a band of knights hired to rid the land of them. The book then goes on to describe their travels back to England and the formation of The Brotherhood to fight the Church. The book ends with “end of installment one”. There is not even an attempt to wrap things up. This was a bit disconcerting and there is nothing online as to when, or if, there will be a sequel. I don’t like that and I don’t feel that the book told me anything I didn’t know about the 14th century