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Margaret Frazer is known for her award winning meticulously researched historical (mid 1400s) fiction starting with the The Novice's Tale, a series featuring Dame Frevisse, a Benedictine nun in St. Fredeweisse Priory. In the third of the Dame Frevisse books, a team of 'players,' a traveling playtroop is introduced. In A Play of Isaac, Frazer has created a spin-off series featuring Joliffe and the players.
A Play for Isaac is well-written, intriguingly interesting, has a great plot and well-developed characters. You are subtly pulled into the life of the players, you have a grasp of the politics of the times, the lifestyles of the rick and the not-so-rich. And when the story ends, you immediately search PaperbackSwap for the next in the series.
Unlike many series authors, Frazer gets better with each book. A new book isn't fill 1/3 with backstory, the characters are familiar to us, and we want, need to know more.
I love this book, and all her other Joliffe books, and of course the original Dame Frevisse series.
A Play for Isaac is well-written, intriguingly interesting, has a great plot and well-developed characters. You are subtly pulled into the life of the players, you have a grasp of the politics of the times, the lifestyles of the rick and the not-so-rich. And when the story ends, you immediately search PaperbackSwap for the next in the series.
Unlike many series authors, Frazer gets better with each book. A new book isn't fill 1/3 with backstory, the characters are familiar to us, and we want, need to know more.
I love this book, and all her other Joliffe books, and of course the original Dame Frevisse series.
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