I was a bit devastated to get finish book 14 ... because I really didn't want to reach the end of these books. They've been so absorbing and Hero and Sebastian have become two of my favourite fictional characters.

As always, Harris writes a very compelling and fascinating novel and I love the way she weaves her stories into well-researched history. I never get the sense, as I do with with authors, that they've just dumped a bunch of historical research into the middle of their novel, Harris mingles the storyline with history very effortlessly. I have to say, I was almost in tears during Hero's interview with the elderly "pure finder" in this novel....