Crossley-Holland, Kevin. The Seeing Stone. New York: Arthur A. Levine Books, 2001.
I loved the story and the format (one to two page chapters), but while it was acceptable for husbands to beat there wives in 1199, it is NOT acceptable now!!!!!! And in one line Crossley-Holland left a sour taste in my mouth when the hero said that he knew his father beat his mother, but would never do it in public. That ruined the book for me. I don’t want to read the other two books in the series. Even if it was historically accurate, this book was published in American in 2001 and that’s not ok message. This was seriously, a small part of the book. My rant was longer than then incident. But this line wasn’t needed. I got that the other fellow was a scoundrel without Crossley-Holland telling me the hero’s father was abusive.
Ok, I might have a trippy double standard, because it didn’t bother me when the guy got his hand cut of for “thieving.” Hmmm….I need to think about this…
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