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  • Tyrant of the Mind

  • The Medieval Mysteries, Book 2
  • By: Priscilla Royal
  • Narrated by: Wanda McCaddon
  • Length: 7 hrs and 38 mins
  • 4.3 out of 5 stars (162 ratings)
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Tyrant of the Mind

By: Priscilla Royal
Narrated by: Wanda McCaddon
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Summary

In the winter of 1271, death stalks the corridors of Wynethorpe Castle on the Welsh border. When the Grim Reaper touches the beloved grandson of the castle lord, Baron Adam sends for his daughter, Prioress Eleanor of Tyndal, and her subinfirmarian, Sister Anne, to save the child with their prayers and healing talents. Escorting them to the remote fortress is Brother Thomas, an unwilling monk fighting his private demons.

Death may be denied once in his quest for souls but never twice. Soon after the trio arrives, an important guest is murdered. The prioress' brother, bloody dagger in hand, stands over the corpse. All others may believe in his guilt, but Eleanor is convinced her brother is innocent.

Outside her priory, in a world of armed men, Eleanor may have little authority, but she is determined to untangle the Gordian knot of thwarted passions and old resentments even if it means defying her father, a man with whom she longs to make peace. As passions rise with the winter wind and time runs short, Eleanor, Anne, and Thomas struggle to find the real killer.

©2004, 2005 Priscilla Royal (P)2016 Blackstone Audio, Inc.

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Meh. Very little mystery and a lot of sex.

As far as mystery goes this book was below average. The author seems obsessed with sex, sexual orientations, and genitalia. It becomes tiresome and distracting. It’s pretty clear that she relies a lot on trying to shock and titillate the reader with sexual banter and the sexual proclivities of the characters. Is the author oversexed or undersexed - living out her own fantasies?
All the priests are gay, the nuns either raving nymphomaniacs or closeted lesbians. The other characters waffle between raging copulation and frigidity. It’s unfortunate.
The performance is good in spite of the pedestrian prose.
It was difficult to get through at times because the sexual antics overshadowed the mystery.
Can’t recommend. Thankfully it was free.

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Brilliant. Simply brilliant.

A perfect second novel in this series. The characters introduced in the first book are given full fleshing out in this second book.

I think this will go on to be a fantastic series of books. As a fan of both the historical and crime fiction genres it is great to find examples where the two come together in such well written form.

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awful character voices

the representation of main characters had changed so much it put me off listening to the book

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Good but

I love historical fiction especially with a murder mystery element. Whilst the attitude towards women, marriage and rape are abhorrent with the religious dogma at times painful, sad and absurd.
There is some much humour in amongst murder mayhem.
These books provide an insight into a different time… although people have rarely changed whatever the century they live in.
Again even with some books included in free, it’s a shame to have some missing in the series.
And again, the ultimate insult to the ears of a listener… changing the narrator, not once but 3 times!

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Should be better

Firstly, the reader.
American pronunciation is used for medieval England. The main protagonist is a very young woman, but the reader is obviously, being polite, much older.
I have no problem with the sexual references, sex wasn't invented in the 20th century, if it drives the story and develops the characters, then there's a place for it.
In medieval England chipmunks were not a thing,
The devil is in the details, so much was right, that this screamed out.
The book is okish, but not really a thriller as the villain is fairly obvious.

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Cleverly plotted.

Surprising plot twists and very well read. Overall very enjoyable. Looking forward to the next in the series.

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An American pretending to be English makes for awkward

The story is a decent enough pot-boiler and there’s nothing offensive about it, but if you’re going to write books set in England, for goodness’ sake, PLEASE learn how to pronounce English places and words as English speakers (as opposed to American speakers) do.

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Not to my liking

Found this a little heavy going at times, Slept through some of it, it didn’t hold my attention

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A good tale spoiled on occasion by wrong emphasis by the reader

I have listened now to a number of the stories about Prioress Eleanor.

The stories are well crafted and I like the voice of the narrator, it’s just a shame that at times the whole meaning of a sentence is distorted by the emphasis on the wrong phrase, word or syllable. Often I find myself replaying sections because of this, what can only be described as a lack of understanding of the gist of the context of a sentence.

I know many will think this to be semantics but for me it spoils what could be a perfect experience for the lack of a little listening by the narrator. Hearing and listening being two quite different functions.

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Good book, bad reading

A great shame the Wanda McCaddon failed to find out how to pronounce Welsh names, mangling Hywel badly and also failing to identify that in English, 'clerk' is pronounced 'clArk' and in the context should have be given that pronunciation.

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