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Excellent

Revisado: 06-20-23

This is one of my favorite Rutledge novels—much to learn, much to ponder, a locale and terrain to visualize, people to meet, and a murderer all readers will vehemently want to see identified and caught.

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A treasure

Revisado: 11-09-20

The Silver Branch, like its fellow books in Sutcliffe’s Roman, Pre-Roman, and Post-Roman Britain novels, is a treasure. It offers memorable characters, variety, character growth and development, setting, learning, testing, moral development, friendship, self-sacrifice, faith under fire, and all the while the reader learns. Most of her books that one finds in the Junior or Young Adult sections of libraries are excellent fare for adults—far better than most books of anyone’s writing which sit in the Adult Fiction section.

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Perhaps the best

Revisado: 12-16-18

This is, I think, my favorite Ian Rutledge novel to date (and I have enjoyed all of them, so this is saying something). The story is intricate enough to be quite interesting, and the characters probably comprise my favorite supporting cast so far. The ensemble as usual contains characters who are a mixture of good and bad habits and motivations, which is how real life is generally, but it also included clearly good characters like Mr. Wright and Mrs. Saunders, whom it was a pleasure to like, and at least one beastly character whom it was enjoyable to detest. The several stories connected to the case were interesting and some of them compelling. And not all of the local people were rude to Rutledge, something which he often has to endure as part and parcel of his work; this time, however, I had the pleasure of seeing him treated positively by a number of the local people. It was also fun to have Bess Crawford making a sort of “phone a friend” appearance.

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