Although the book is far too long it is redeemed somewhat by a devilish twist at the end. The day before Dominion Voting Systems’ defamation trial against Fox News was set to begin in a Delaware courthouse, the Fox board of directors and top executives made a startling discovery that. There are some exciting episodes, but the pace is unnecessarily slowed by inconsequential storytelling and would be improved by some drastic pruning. The author has certainly researched her story well and it shows, sometimes too much. Only Camelot begins to suspect the strange rune reader, an albino child whose prophecies seem uncannily accurate. As they suffer the wettest summer of the century, the spread of plague, the subsequent shortage of food and the breakdown of law and order, the little band is beset by tragedy as one after another of the group suffers a violent end.
On the way, each member of the group tells a story, and shades of Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales or Boccaccio’s Decamaron spring to mind. Company of Liars Paperback 26 February 2009 by Karen Maitland (Author) 1,365 ratings See all formats and editions Kindle 15.99 Read with Our Free App Audiobook 0.00 Free with your Audible trial Hardcover 78.29 2 Used from 13.56 5 New from 78.28 Paperback from 155.00 1 Used from 155. Midsummer’s Day 1348, and the first victim of the pestilence dies in the English coastal town of Kilmington.Ĭamelot, a generic title for a peddler or hawker, is the narrator and together with a motley group of fellow travellers, comprised of a conjuror, a musician and his apprentice, a deformed storyteller, an adolescent couple on the run, a midwife and a rune-reading girl, set out on a journey away from the disease-ridden town.
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