Nothing against the book, it's just hard to hold a candle to BTF for me. I started 'The Boatman's Daughter' last night and for me, it just immediately fell flat. I feel like this book has ruined most other books for me. I've never read a book that realized the awesome, horrific power of angels and demons so well, and it also manages to provide a lovely, tender & human narrative of redemption and forgiveness to go along with it all. Buehlman's prose is poetic without being purple, and he has a talent for presenting the uncanny or supernatural as firmly rooted in the realities of his characters. I'm a huge fan of both history and horror, and the story of a disgraced former knight wandering plague-riddled France with a mysterious child and encountering all manner of demons and monsters is the perfect synthesis of the two.

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