Revelation (The Shardlake series, 4)

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First published on the 25th of October. 2012, this was to be a major standalone novel from C.J. Sansom. Utilizing his ever expansive historical knowledge once more, it this time concerns itself with an alternate telling of the events following the second world war. Establishing a somewhat darker tone to what he had previously, it manages to convey some grander ideas and themes overall. A four and a half star, perhaps not quite as good as the one before, but overall these are wonderful books. They have given me an insight in the 16th century in a natural way, combined with a mystery that makes each book difficult to put down.

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Tudor England is brought to vivid life in Dissolution, the first in C.J. Samson's phenomenal, bestselling Shardlake series. After one of Cromwell's commissioners is brutally murdered, Matthew Shardlake is drawn into an investigation that becomes darker than he could have ever imagined . . .With this installment in the Matthew Shardlake series, I think I can safely say that CJ Sansom has taken his place as my second favorite modern author (Sharon Kay Penman being my favorite). I have given this book some time to swirl around in my mind since I finished it, and I'm still not sure that I can do it justice. At court several people of which Archbishop Cranmer and a dangerous Protestant faction are the most important, and these will keep an keen eye on Catherine Parr and her reformist sympathies. roman iz serijala o odvjetniku Matthewu Shardlaku samo je potvrdio da C. J. Sansom pristupa temi s pažnjom i ozbiljnošću, istražujući povijesne izvore. Pokušava u roman unijeti što više činjenica, a onda oko njih plete radnju i uključuje fiktivne likove koje suočava s povijesnim.

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Ono što obožavam u Sansomovim romanima jest to što veliku pažnju daje osjetilima pa točno mogu zamisliti svu prljavštinu, neugodne mirise, bolove...En este ambiente nuestro abogado Shardlake se enfrenta a una serie de brutales asesinatos con un fuerte tinte religioso en una sociedad fuertemente tensionada y dividida entre las distintas tendencias religiosas, cada vez más polarizadas. zealots abound within both religions, and tolerance is in short supply. When Shardlake's good friend is found murdered, his body dumped in a public fountain, this angry barrister promises to find the killer. As subsequent bizarre murders occur, Mathew realizes a prophecy of 7 vials of poison foretold in the Biblical book of Revelations is being reenacted, perhaps a serial killer before the term was known. Along with searching for answers, Shardlake is trying to help a young religious extremist who has been imprisioned in Bedlam Hospital and is in danger of being burned at the stake. Helping the poor and less fortunate is something this lawyer feels passionate about; at that time, London had a vast number of unfortunates. Violent clashes of radical religious groups; tax increases to fund foreign wars; whales washed up in the Thames; scandalous public care of the mentally ill; even references to a man killing prostitutes in East Anglia. No, not a round-up of recent headlines, but some of the plot strands in Revelation, the fourth in CJ Sansom's superb Tudor detective series. The past is not so foreign after all. This one held another great mystery, a serial killer whose victims are killed in a fashion that mimics some of the book of Revelation, hence the books title.