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The Best Of Men (2009)

by Claire Letemendia(Favorite Author)

3.42 of 5 Votes: 2

ISBN

0771052707 (ISBN13: 9780771052705)

languge

English

genre

Historical Fiction

publisher

McClelland & Stewart

series

Laurence Beaumont

review 1: I received this book as a giveaway through Goodreads first reads.Laurence Beaumont is a man who no longer wishes to live. He was betrayed by a woman, this sort of thing frequently happens to heroes they really should do something about it. In return for saving a fellow traveller he is told a prophecy about his love life and exhorted to go home. Upon returning home he meets up with a friend Ingram and through disastrous consequences an acquaintance turns out to be the man who Juana (the treacherous woman) stole from and whose treasonous letters he now carries. Having never met this man and being unaware of how and who was informed of the letters Beaumont is plunged into a plot, and thrown back into a world of intrigue that he wanted no part of. Throughout his present strugg... moreles it is revealed to us what happen to Beaumont in the past to make him despair at life.The story is told from multiple view points, which under normal circumstance I would find quite confusing, but hearing the view points of Beaumont, Ingram, Thomas (Beaumont's brother), the traitors and Seward (the man who helps Beaumont decipher the coded letter), made the whole situation clearer to me as I could see what both sides of the plot were plotting. That said I lost track of who Robert was and what exactly he was supposed to be doing very early on, probably because I only have space in my head for a certain number of characters.
review 2: There’s a civil war being fought in and while Laurence Beaumont is fighting in it, he’s also deciphered a coded plot with the help of his old tutor Seward. They discover that it’s a plot to kill the King but who’s written it and who was written too?Set in England in 1642, it’s told in the third person narrative. This book was ok, I especially liked the character of Beaumont who stands to gain a lot with his noble birthright but being a bit of a cad he just doesn’t find it appealing. The other characters were good, however there was a downside to this book for me, too many characters, I lost sight of who was siding with the King and who was siding with Parliament. It did slightly spoil my pleasure in reading this book. In fact I got too about page 200 and started it again as I had lost sight of who was who. I wasn’t much wiser the second time around but wanted to finish it to see what happened with certain characters.I would recommend this book but while the plot was accessible, too many characters made it distracting. less

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