"What is truth? What is lie?" Sinful Folk is a well crafted novel that grips the reader with its first emotionally charged chapter and continues to enlighten and entertain throughout the unique narration with an impressive attention to historical detail. Just like the medieval tales of yore, Mr. Hayes has created a story that is lyrical, captivating and includes strong messages of courage and lost love. The writing is superb and balances the tones of the daring narrator with a historically based mystery that involves the deaths of five children from the small village of Duns England in 1377. The arduous journey that ensues for the bereaved parents that demand an audience with their majesty is not a passage for the tenderhearted. With a kingdom that has already been plunged into the darkest depths by an unrelenting winter, the desperate surrounding counties may hold only further trials and unimaginable sorrow for the pitiable travelers. Secrets are abound in this work, and along with the narrator the reader is slowly exposed to the truth or is it all a lie? Based on historical records and elaborated upon to create an emotional tale that questions what is the truth and what is a lie, may I introduce the potential reader to Sinful Folk. In the end, this was a fine read that immediately captured my attention when I read the opening historical notes that explained the inspiration for this novel. The time devoted to the research that created the bones of this novel is clear and the fleshing out of the characters just added to my overall impression. The mystery and the explanation fit perfectly with the period, the side mysteries were equally built-in and created hours of enjoyment for this reader. Although some surprising negatives: an ending that took me on a completely unusual departure in regards to the narrator and side stepped other conclusions, the recurrence of the medieval style of profanity that added to the realism and urgency of events but unfortunately began to slightly irritate and bore me and finally a narration/tone that sadly over exaggerated the feminine and seemed sappy and overly dramatic in parts versus the masculine; Sinful Folk was still a gripping read and should not be missed by those who are looking for a well researched medieval mystery. -read and purchased on kindle -EGP/January 2014 Comments are closed.
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