3.5 stars. After taking a fairly long time to get through this, I've concluded that it’s a very well crafted example of a subgenre of book I don't much care for. It was entertaining in many ways, but for much of it, didn’t really draw me in.Through a Dark Mist, first in a series set in the England of Robin Hood, is a vivid, extravagant, swashbucking story, set in a crude, bawdy, violent Medieval world. Heroes are heroic and passionate, heroines are beautiful and feisty, villains are villainous and skanky -- extremely skanky. (To be totally fair, the heroines of the story are also courageous and intelligent.) There’s betrayal and sacrifice and honor redeemed and some sizzling love scenes, which made it somewhat worth it to get through the torture and gore, court intrigues, stubborn heroines and purple prose. I guess what I’m trying to say is that if you like this sort of thing, you’ll probably love it.
