Genre: Historical,
Mystery, Fantasy
Rating: A-
In the course of The Scottish
Prisoner Lord John Gey and Jamie Frasier team up in order to arrest a
dishonourable Englishman and maybe stop a Jacobean plot on the way. The plot is as such: after returning to
London Grey receives a package of letters that detail the illegal doings of
Major Gerald Siverly, who Grey and his brother, the Duke of Pardloe, decide needs to be brought
to London for justice – a task which requires journeying to Ireland. Within the package is a poem written in Irish
Gaelic, so Pardloe summons Frasier in order to translate it as best as possible. While all this is going on, Frasier has also
been approached by Irishman Tobias Quinn, who he knew before the Rising of
45. Quinn talks of another Rising, this
one in Ireland, and it doesn’t take a genius to put one and two together to see
where this plot is going.
In the course of The Scottish
Prisoner Lord John Gey and Jamie Frasier team up in order to arrest a
dishonourable Englishman and maybe stop a Jacobean plot on the way. The plot is as such: after returning to
London Grey receives a package of letters that detail the illegal doings of
Major Siverly, who Grey and his brother, the Duke of Pardloe, decide needs to be brought
to London for justice – a task which requires journeying to Ireland. Within the package is a poem written in Irish
Gaelic, so Pardloe summons Frasier in order to translate it as best as possible. While all this is going on, Frasier has also
been approached by Irishman Tobias Quinn, who he knew before the Rising of
45. Quinn talks of another Rising, this
one in Ireland, and it doesn’t take a genius to put one and two together to see
where this plot is going.
I think this novel really tied up some of the
loose ends of the previous Lord John books, particularly in regards to the friendship
between the two men. Having read the Outlander books I know that they become
good friends again, and The Scottish Prisoner
shows just how they do so. Things might
not be exactly perfect between the two of them at novel’s end, but I at least have
an idea of how they’re going to end up at the point of friendship that they’re
at by Drums of Autumn. I am getting a bit bored of the Jacobean
threat plot line in the Grey books, it seems to pop up every other book or
so. At the same time, though I only have
one more story (to date) in the Lord John
series to read, and I suspect that Gabaldon will have to stretch a bit to write
a story connecting Jacobeans and zombies.
While this wasn’t my favourite story in the series, I did like it,
overall. For the most part it was able
to really stand on its own, although as usual there are many references to
events both in earlier Lord John novels
and in Voyager, so I wouldn’t
recommend skipping over them before reading this one – even if Gabaldon’s note
at the start of the novel says otherwise.
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