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Pagan's Crusade
  
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Pagan's Crusade (Library Binding)

by Catherine Jinks (Author)
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From Publishers Weekly

In a starred review, PW wrote, "Jinks's alternately hilarious, often poignant novel turns medieval history into fodder for both high comedy and allegory." Ages 12-up.
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Grade 7 Up-An uneven attempt at blending history, adventure, and humor. Pagan, a streetwise teenager in muddy, medieval Jerusalem, tries to escape his criminal past by joining the Templar Knights. He becomes a squire to Lord Roland de Bram, a rigid, proper Knight, and together they uncover a plot to invade the Holy City. Rich with historical details, yet lacking in explanation of period or setting, the book fails to give readers the broader context of the events. Also, the ungainly first-person narration, much of it written in decapitated sentence fragments and parenthetical asides, will leave teens with the difficult tasks of empathizing with the narrator and attempting to understand the action. The character development is weak, leaving most of the players as mere caricatures. Pagan learns a lesson or two about responsibility while working with Roland and defending the city, but he doesn't really evolve beyond anachronistic, sarcastic remarks. His favorite phrase, "Christ in a cream cheese sauce," is funny once or twice, but loses something on the 20th reading. Readers who have moved beyond Jon Scieszka's "Time Warp Trio" series (Viking) may find something in the historical spoofing and sarcasm, but Leon Garfield's Smith (Farrar, 2000) is a better take on the clever, back-alley kid who gets in over his head. First in a proposed series.
Douglas P. Davey, Guelph Public Library, Ontario, Canada
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2.0étoiles sur 5 interesting....., Mars 8 2005
This review is from: Pagan's Crusade: Book One of the Pagan Chronicles (Paperback)
this book was very interesting to read, to tell the truth i have not yet finished it yet...which is very weird of me because i usualy read a new book in a matter of hours the same day i bought it. I am finding the novel to be slow. But it has high parts and is action packed.....sometimes. Unfortunetly, that doesn'y make up for the fact that half the time i don't know what is going because the characters will switch so abruptly and the setting is sometimes hard to follow/understand. it kind of frightens me to think that this book will soon become a series, because frankly (sorry Catherine Jinks) this book is boring. the begining was funny and understandable enough, but too bad the rest of the novel just isn't like that.
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