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I‘m a bit behind on reviews, so I‘m going to try and catch up this week.

Another great Matthew Shardlake novel (#SeriesLove2025) for #ShardlakeBR. Shardlake and Barak are after a most sinister killer who taunts them along the way. Meanwhile Henry VIII is in pursuit of Catherine Parr.

Andrew65, TheSpineView, dabbe

TheSpineView You can do it!👊 27m

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Daisey

Heartstone: A Matthew Shardlake Tudor Mystery | C. J. Sansom

Saturday night #BooksAndBooze

I‘ve reached the part of this book where I just don‘t want to stop, but I also don‘t want to get too far ahead of the chapters on the schedule for March.

#ShardlakeBR

dabbe I'm feeling the same way! 🤩 And that hashtag is the best! 🙌🏻 #booksandbooze 3d

BethM I‘ve never heard of this series. I love the Tudor time period! 3d

Daisey @BethM It‘s such a good series! The first one is

Dissolution: A Shardlake Novel

Daisey @dabbe I don‘t use this hashtag often, but it‘s perfect for a Saturday night. 3d

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Daisey

Heartstone: A Matthew Shardlake Tudor Mystery | C. J. Sansom

This one reads slower than the previous one to me, but I‘m still thoroughly intrigued.

#ShardlakeBR

dabbe 🎯! 1w

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kspenmoll

Dark Fire: A Shardlake Novel | C. J. Sansom

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Lawyer Shardlake is tasked by Thomas Cromwell, Chief Secretary to Henry VIII, with a dangerous & secret mission to find “dark fire”, a method of mass destruction. An atmosphere of evil & violence colors this #2 in the series.Shardlake also has a sensationalized case involving a young girl charged with murder.What he unearths is a tale of nefarious,depraved evil.His friend & healer Guy returns & a new character,the loyal,abrasive, protector Barak.

Andrew65, TheSpineView, dabbe

kspenmoll #serieslove2025 3w

TheSpineView Well done! 3w

dabbe Excellent review! Barak is my favorite “arse!“ 🤩🤣🤗 3w

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kspenmoll

Dark Fire: A Shardlake Novel | C. J. Sansom

Reading the Alchemist with 9th grade. Meanwhile I am reading Dark Fire at home. Both books linked by alchemy. #heroesjourney #alchemist #liquidgold

dabbe Interesting tie-in! 🤩❣️🤩 3w

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AnneCecilie

Revelation: A Shardlake Novel 4 | C. J. Sansom

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A friend and colleague of Shardlake is found murdered and Shardlake promises the widow that he will find the killer. This leads to the discovery of more related murders as someone is killing according to one of the stories in the Book of Revelation.

At the same time Shardlake gets appointed the lawyer to Adam Kite. A young man who won‘t do anything besides praying who for his own protection has been sent to the asylum. This give Sansom to explore

AnneCecilie the treatment of mental health during the Tudor and shows the conditions in which they lived in. I loved each new Shardlake crime more than the last since we get to know the characters more. I‘m so happy that #ShardlakeBR has me rereading this amazing crime series. @dabbe 4w

dabbe Excellent review! So glad we're reading these together! 🤩🤗🤩 4w

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LitsyEvents

Revelation. C.J. Sansom | C J Sansom

Repost for @dabbe

#ShardlakeSeriesBR #ShardlakeBR

Fascinating discussion today Shardlakians!

Next up: HEARTSTONE

dabbe Thank you! 🤗 4w

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dabbe

Revelation. C.J. Sansom | C J Sansom

#ShardlakeSeriesBR #ShardlakeBR @LItsyEvents

Fascinating discussion today, Shardlakians!

Next up: HEARTSTONE. The events of this novel take place in the summer of 1545. Shardlake and Barak travel to Portsmouth on a legal case given to them by an old servant of Queen Catherine Parr. The book also concerns preparations for the Battle of the Solent and the King's warship, the MARY ROSE. Elizabeth I makes an appearance or two, too! 🤩

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dabbe

Revelation. C.J. Sansom | C J Sansom

#anotheronedone!

#ChunksterChallenge2025
#AllergicToChunksters
@Amiable @julieclair

Amiable Yay! 4w

dabbe @Amiable 💚🩶💚 3w

julieclair Woo hoo!!! 🎉 3w

dabbe @julieclair 💚🩶💚 3w

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dabbe

Revelation. C.J. Sansom | C J Sansom

#ShardlakeSeriesBR #ShardlakeBR

Thoughts, Shardlakians?

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OutsmartYourShelf Back then, people in England had the 'comfort' of thinking that hardships were part of God's plan & that the afterlife would make up for any suffering on earth. I have a hard time reconciling in my mind a God that loves humankind but would allow His worshippers to suffer excruciating deaths in His name. The death for treason was horrific whilst being burned at the stake would be bad enough. 4w

OutsmartYourShelf “they confuse their own needs, for certainty or power, with God's voice speaking to them.“ We know that Henry VIII was one of these.

Also how many others over the centuries (even talking 20th century with the cult leaders) have claimed to have had the truth revealed to them by God, & somehow it involves them being in charge, getting rich, &/or having many lovers. Really odd that🤔 /s 4w

LiseWorks The greatest wars were about religion. I remember a priest telling me that members of the Congregation should not read the Bible because they can't understand it. I have read my Bible since I was given one in grade 5 ( when they used to give Bibles in school). I was so shocked. This was in 1981. How ignorant of that man telling me a woman that I could not read a book or understand it. No wonder ordinary people were kept in the dark. 4w

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dabbe @OutsmartYourShelf Excellent thoughts. The more I see the horrors unleashed in this world, the harder it is for me to believe. And just saying “God works in mysterious ways“ is NOT an answer to the amount of suffering that goes on. If God gets credit for all the good that happens (I see a person praising God for winning a game), he also gets the blame for the bad. Otherwise, we're living in chaos, which is what I do believe to be true. 4w

dabbe @LiseWorks Beyond ignorant. Aggrandizingly arrogant IMHO. 4w

lil1inblue This was a wonderful quote. It was a confusing, uncertain era, where things changed based on who was whispering in the king's ear that day. Those in power used religion as a way to maintain control or to gain power. They manipulated "god's word" to fit their ends. Meanwhile, the general population was left confused and afraid. And fear and confusion are often the seeds for extreme behavior. 4w

dabbe @lil1inblue You're more easily led, too, if you're afraid and think you have nowhere to turn to. 4w

lil1inblue @dabbe 🎯🎯🎯 4w

AnneCecilie The Tudor time along with many others just proves to me all the wrongs that have been done in the name of religion and that extremism in any form is never a good thing. (edited) 4w

dabbe @AnneCecilie Too many wrongs to name. And whose religion is the right one? Why do we have to persecute in the name of our religion? These thoughts have led me to become an agnostic. 4w

AnneCecilie @dabbe I‘m not sure what I am, but I love in a very secular society so it doesn‘t really matter. I have enough distance to it to see that religion isn‘t all good. 4w

dabbe @AnneCecilie Did I ever ask where you're from? I wish things were more secular here. 4w

AnneCecilie @dabbe I‘m from Norway. Religion isn‘t a big thing here. There‘s a very low percentage that visits the church during the year. I hade to google and it says that each Norwegian on average visits the church 0,59 times during a year. I would think that most of these visits are during Christmas and Easter. 4w

dabbe @AnneCecilie You live in the most beautiful of countries! I was lucky enough to visit there back in 1990. My 1st husband's submarine was stationed there after breaking through the ice at the Arctic Circle. We spent most of our time in Bergen, and it's one of my five favorite places on this planet! The people were the friendliest folks, too. Where do you live? ❣️🇳🇴❣️ 3w

kwmg40 I love what this quotation says about humility. It seems that, so many centuries later, the mix of politics, religion, power and economics can still cause a lot of upheaval in the world. 3w

dabbe @kwmg40 Agree 💯. Imagine where we'd be if more leaders were more humble. 3w

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