Bests & Worsts Reviews from Amazon

I am a huge fan of Cadfael and Hugh de Singleton books, which are wonderful books! Well written and researched for the most part, and yet not graphic. Since I have read most of those series I was casting about looking for something to read in the same genre. In the first few pages of this book, possibly an innocent man is drowned, another gets his foot and hand chopped off before being hung, and one of the main characters is assaulted. I read for pleasure, and to me that is not pleasurable. If you are a Cadfael or de Singleton fan, may be that this book is not for you. But if you enjoy more graphic books, you might be fine.