21. 12/16/09 A Vision of Light by Judith Merkle Riley (435 pages)

I read this one based on a Diana Gabaldon recommendation. It was good, but not awesome. The feminism was realistic for the period (the middle ages), which I like, but Margaret was ridiculously naive. For someone who was sold to a rich gay merchant who beat and sodomized her and left her for dead by the roadside, lived through the Plague, became a midwife and toured with a troupe of actors she was easily shocked and kind of slow. That being said, her ending up with (spoiler?) Brother Gregory (AND HOW!) was excellent and pulled off an eleventh hour save, making me want to read the rest of the trilogy.