Hi to all! I have decided that I cannot give a full review of this series in just one post, just not gonna happen so I will try to give the high points of each book, without giving away any spoilers if at all possible, so here goes…
If you missed the first post about this three part story just click here…and if you did catch part one, just follow me okay…
I want to start by setting up the main characters in this story…
Master Physician Julien Sauniere.
A member of the High Guild of Physicians with a small private practice that caters to the common people of France
Julien Sauniere approached by Father Marin, a priest of La Madeleine for thirty years with a secret charge…
Father Marin is the caretaker of a secret cache of Manuscripts hidden below the church…and one of the manuscripts has been stolen, and he suspects Spellcraft!
Genevieve Tournon
Julien’s old flame, and fellow doctor who is appointed as the personal physician to the Duke of Lorraine.
Genevieve burns the candle at both ends by dating the Duke, and also rekindling her romance with Julien.
The Duke of Lorraine
The Duke of Lorraine hails from a powerful family that traces it’s roots to….opps sorry, but if I told you that, I’d be giving away a major plotline of the series….
The Duke has plans to unite all of France with territories that had previously been a part of or in some cases actually belonged to France….but the Duke’s ambitions spread farther than this…
Okay, these are the main characters…so lets go to the story itself…
Rex Mundi is set in ( or on ) an alternate earth, with an alternate history…
The American Revolution ended in a stalemate…
The Catholic Church controls Europe….
And Sorcery determines political power….
In book one, we are introduced to Dr Sauniere, who is paid a visit by Father Marin after office hours…actually way after office hours…One O’Clock in the morning to be exact, to tell Julien of his secret and of the missing scroll. Fearing what would happen to him should the Inquisition find out of this lost manuscript, the father begs Julien to help him, and thus the mystery begins.
Julien and the father go to the rectory in La Madeleine, where they begin their search for clues…one of the clues is revealed to Julien although at the time, he (and we the reader )are unaware that it really is a clue…there was a scent of sandalwood, with notes of sulfur underneath….Julien finally asks the father if anyone else had known of this secret…at first the father tells him no…but than admits that there is one other….a woman named Marie Christine…a Prostitute.
Julien, hoping to find this manuscript, tries to find this prostitute at a flophouse where she works out of, only to find she has been killed and horribly mutilated in what looks like a ritualistic ceremony.
A missing manuscript and a dead body…the mystery deepens and Julien looks for more help.
He looks to an old friend for help… Albert Maiselles…a Jew. Julien knows Albert thru his practice, Julien is the only Licensed Guild Physician who will treat Jews in Paris.
Julien tells his tale to Albert and he also asks Albert whazt he knows about Sandlewood and Brimstone…
That’s it for tonight, but more to follow in book one…
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