Company of Liars

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I want to leave you with a quote and I think an important antidote to the internalized shame that many of us carry : I was extremely fascinated by the details of daily life, by the very premise of a plague-ridden country and how people grow terrified of it not to mention the author’s apparent Medieval knowledge (holy crap, the whole custom of Cripples’ Wedding is horrifying!) 1 and basically devoured the book in one sitting – despite realising that yes, the book is overlong, quite info dumpy and I was able to predict every single revelation including the Big One.

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Unfortunately, “Company of Liars” becomes tedious as the story progresses with the plot being repetitive. This is the premise of the tale and therefore must be accepted but readers searching for a more detailed and multidimensional narrative may find themselves to be disappointed. Its certainly catches you out. Up to that point its a delicate balance of superstition and mystery , leaving more up to you imagination.It is I suppose comforting for some to believe that the social issues of today’s Britain are perennial, that there is a national character, perhaps, which continuously muddles through the same problems over and over. This is one explanation for Karen Maitland’s imagined world of England in the Middle Ages. The way she portrays the state of the nation - from immigration to the condition of the roads; from sexual harassment to fake news - suggests that the problems we have to deal with have a constancy that define the country. Im Namen der Lüge. Thriller. Aus dem Amerikanischen von Alexander Wagner. Originaltitel: In the Company of Liars. guest author is Karen Maitland, author of medieval thrillers like Company of Liars, The Owl Killers and The Gallows Curse. To celebrate the release of her new book The Falcons of […] I have to say that I liked the book in general, so sorry in advance for the thoughts about historical fiction that keep bothering me from time to time. I wanted to get them in the writing, and even thought the critique is partly inspired by this book, I mean it more in general.

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There are so many twists and turns in this thrilling novel that the reader will be left wondering just who these liars really are. The end, or beginning, will surprise you. You are guaranteed never to jump to conclusions again.” First Sentence: ‘So that’s settled then, we bury her alive in the iron bridle. That’ll keep her tongue still.’ 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? 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..

Company of Liars

Ellis, an Edgar Award-winning novelist, is bound to find more fans with this thrilling novel that holds your attention from end to beginning. You’ll be happy you spent time In the Company Of Liars. You’ve heard tales of beauty and the beast. How a fair maid falls in love with a monster and sees the beauty of his soul beneath the hideous visage. But you’ve never heard the tale of the handsome man falling for the monstrous woman and finding joy in her love, because it doesn’t happen, not even in a story-teller’s tale.

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I'm not saying all Medieval people should be depicted as absolute brutes, but in this book there is one particular character (out of 9) who is openly sexist, homophobic and antisemitic, and he is the one depicted as a terribly bad person in general, while most of the others seem pretty open-minded even by today's standards. Sure, we can imagine that there's a very specific set of characters, not representative of the whole population, but then, I don't know, maybe they could meet some of the population? I mean, the majority of my parents' generation are (sadly) pretty sexist and homophobic, but they're not all mustache-twirling, throat-slashing movie villains! For God's sake, my own grandmother thinks that red-haired children are born evil and she is literate and watches TV! Combines the storytelling traditions of The Canterbury Tales with the supernatural suspense of Mosse’s Sepulchre in this atmospheric tale of treachery and magic’ Marie Claire on Company of Liars 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. The topic of this article may not meet Wikipedia's general notability guideline. Please help to demonstrate the notability of the topic by citing reliable secondary sources that are independent of the topic and provide significant coverage of it beyond a mere trivial mention. If notability cannot be shown, the article is likely to be merged, redirected, or deleted. 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.Infelt it was so predictable that narigorm was the curse. So predictable that i began to wonder was the answer going to be something completely different. Undeniably, “Company of Liars” has a fairy tale foundation with recognizable elements (trolls, witches, wolves) but on an adult level (for example: robbers living under bridges that collect tolls --- clear a troll). Again though, don’t expect a fantasy novel as “Company of Liars” is certainly not that; but there are subtle hints of childhood tales from the dark side. Ron Rash is renowned for his writing about Appalachia, but his latest book, The Caretaker, begins ...