The Dark Apostle: Elisha Barber (Series #1) (Paperback)

from Nightwing

What an engaging story! I was drawn into the world that E. C. Ambrose has created from the first page and was sorry to have to say goodbye as I read the last words. The story begins with a death, actually two deaths and then another one. And then a man confessing to a murder he didn't do so that ...

from ladycato

As a teenager, I was obsessed with the medieval period. In recent years, it hasn't attracted me as much--so many books repeat the same themes and decades. This book reminded me of how awesome well-written medieval fiction can be, in part because it hit on another one of my major obsessions: heale...

from renbedell

A gruesome tale of a barber/surgeon, who is filled with guilt, gets sent off to the war in 14th century England and discovers a fantastical secret about himself. It is a first person story that can be graphic with the descriptions of surgical procedures. While it is a fantasy, it is more of a his...

from littlebookworm

Elisha Barber lives in a fourteenth century England with witches and mages, unlike our own world, and war, poverty, and suffering, very much like it. He does all he can with his two hands, both acting as a barber, cutting and shaving men and women alike, and as a surgeon, plying the medical trade...

from Nightwing

What an engaging story! I was drawn into the world that E. C. Ambrose has created from the first page and was sorry to have to say goodbye as I read the last words. The story begins with a death, actually two deaths and then another one. And then a man confessing to a murder he didn't do so that ...