Sister Svangerd and the Not Quite Dead

When you need a princess guzzled at the Ecclesiastical Council, of course you send a monk and a nun to do the deed.

I didn’t find this as enjoyable as previous Parker novels. It’s still entertaining, with the usual type of shifty narrator both the author, and I, favour, but for some reason it just wasn’t as much fun.

I’d have liked it more if it had concentrated on the fifteenth ecumenical council, lost books, faking antiquities, and Svangerd bossing Desiderius around. I’m just not particularly interested in the way things escalated. While I’ll almost certainly read the sequel at some point, I won’t be holding my breath in anticipation of its publication.