I read this book because it lately (especially by the TV movie starring Alexandra Neldel) on everyone's lips was, and still is a best seller to it. With several sequels. Moreover, it is not so long ago that I have read a great fiction book about life in the impressive medieval England. So it was worth a try.
short to content, via the same before I leave out: The 17-year-old virtuous merchant's daughter Marie was to marry the lawyer Ruppertus. This turns out to be devious and unscrupulous fortune-hunter. The night before the wedding she is purchased by Witnesses accused of fornication, the court ultimately found guilty and banished from the city. Half dead, they will be read from the Wanderhure Hedwig and decides to grudging also for such a life. Their only goal now is revenge on the men who are to blame for their misfortune.
It's been a bit since I've read this novel and the more time elapses, the more irritated I become. This is above all things because certain things so much better gehändelt could have been - in all honesty, I have no particular talent for storytelling, but even if I think reading, "That would Sun but more plausible one !"... well, then the book is certainly not the best I have ever read.
Why Ruppertus at the beginning so makes an incredible effort and relies on a plan, which is on the silence of arrives far too many people want to open up not me -. well, maybe he likes the risk I still do not understand why he was a bastard son of a count who has him for a long time even ignored, as oh-so-great game applies especially when you consider that Marie's father is a well-off merchant, who would certainly have not the slightest problem to marry his daughter to a just such
Then Marie herself -.. I do with this character ever do anything. At first she is a naive, sheltered girl who grew up and when, after five years Wanderhure ... a naive, thoughtful woman out for revenge. Okay, she wants revenge. All right, is entirely understandable. But - that's all? Somehow I had the feeling that the writers get nothing out of it. Marie as a character has left me cold. Of course they did me at the beginning are sorry, but later has only frustrated me often simple. You take stupid decisions that make it even harder than necessary in part (especially in regard to her childhood friend Michel) - and is then often simply outrageous fortune. So many coincidences, my goodness. Lucky coincidences, Deus ex Machina, lazy writing - there are many names for it. And in the end decided to just back out of their sight and they ... says nothing. Where it has not previously claimed against the high and mighty. Is clear. This end is, for example, something that could have been better able to solve easily. But what the heck.
The male image is also very one-sided. That there be a few scumbags in a book about a Wanderhure must be clear, otherwise where would the drama. But everyone? Everyone? Except maybe three or four men each is actually a pig. Once Marie turns up somewhere, the men apparently lose the ability to think with your brain. Constantly she is staring lustfully or undressed with his eyes. Quite obviously are very angry monks - or generally clergy (but still below there is an exception). This is probably a subject of the book: The clergy in the Middle Ages were all messed up totally and have a damn sheared to their vows. Certainly there were black sheep, but all ? Real now? For real ?
To these major criticisms, then many small add that have annoyed me to read but sometimes even more. As a reader, one is reminded, for example darann constantly that Marie is beautiful. Like angels. Madonna has a face, etc. And that even after five (5!) Wanderhure years. In the Middle Ages. Yeah, I know that she is a brave whore who keeps pretty clean - but still. We are in the Middle Ages. Five years as Wanderhure you will see it. Then 20 is about today's 40, but without a balanced diet, cosmetic surgery, dental care and fitness plans.
matter. From time to sneak into and modern views (yes, Marie, you have a nice flat stomach and will never be as thick as the Bravo, is the same thickness as ugly), the writing style is very simple and often works with repetition. This can be seen at some point. I found myself later, when I, repetitive phrases annoyed with the eyes rolled. The medieval world is usually described only vague - especially for those interested in such things should probably still resort to other authors.
If we break down the story, it is in "The Wanderhure" really a fairy tale: A pretty, innocent girl will endure victim of intrigues, has a lot of suffering, but in the end, everything is good and the wicked are punished.
I think that the story does have potential, but we could have put it better. The book reads very quickly down, however, is essentially light entertainment in between. Whom the action should respond, inside even know if it suits. I will probably give me the following volumes, however. My nerves need rest.
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