The fact that the next section of the book was an abbey mystery on par with Scooby Doo (which I say as a compliment) and I was entirely drawn in. That was enough to hook me and draw me in. So strong are his abilities that there are whispers that he may have supernatural powers. Luca is a clever young man, one who has yet to take his vows, but shows an incredible aptitude for study. Both have heavy ties to the Church with one being focused on the Crusades and The Changeling being set for the most part in an abbey. Both are young adult novels and both start (for some reason) with an attempted sexual assault of a young girl by an older man who has been promised to be her husband, but is too impatient (or villainous) to wait until his betrothed is older. Currently, thanks to the way deadlines ended up working out, I’m reading two books set in Medieval Europe where the main character is named Luca and touched by some supernatural force that sets him apart from the rest. The Changeling may have been doomed from the start when it came to my affection for it. By the 14th century, they existed in Europe as well. They were hand cannons (although they were not necessarily fired from the hand, but rather at the end of a handle). Handheld firearms first appeared in China where gunpowder was first developed. I skimmed some of the entry and then happened upon this small paragraph in the handguns entry: I had to put the novel down and go to Wikipedia, determined to find out the truth of the matter and grow about my own superior knowledge. “The hammering on the door shot him into wakefulness like a handgun going off in his face.” Although this is set in the 15th century, the very first sentence threw me out of the book: From the very beginning of this novel, I was thrown off.
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