The Secret Healer

A Kindle first read. I don't know if it was the translation or the actual writing style of the author, but the writing was too simplistic and it seemed very anachronistic. Actually, a lot of the situations and characterization seemed anachronistic to me. Many characters were flat and boring. And the......more

The first thing I will say about this book is that the description is misleading. When she meets handsome Johannes—an investigator hired by the Church to bring her to justice for sacrilegious acts—she becomes drawn to the very man who could destroy her. I was imagining, as I began to read, that an In......more

Heidelberg 1388: Madlen hilft der Hebamme Clara bei ihrer Arbeit und lernt vieles von ihr. Als Clara stirbt und man Madlen bittet, einer angesehenen Bürgerin bei der Geburt ihres Kindes zu helfen, gerät Madlens Leben aus der Spur. Das Baby kommt tot zur Welt, der Frau jedoch kann Madlen das Leben re......more

The Secret Healer talks about Madlen, a woman who works as a healer in northern Germanic Europe during the "witch hunt" times. Though the story was interesting enough to keep me intrigued, the writing style was odd and often times simplistic. Perhaps some of that was lost in translation; I don't kno......more

I enjoyed this book, despite the fact that it contained some serious flaws, which other readers have also pointed out. Although I liked its heroine immediately, I put down and picked up the book several times before getting hooked. Madlen is a young girl in 1300's Europe, training with the local mid......more