This is the other 1632 book, and I'm afraid I found it less fun than the other. Although "The Cannon Law" comes with a delightful pun in the title (it's all about church politics) and reads well for somebody unfamiliar with the world and for those who didn't read the book it's a sequel to, "The Galileo Affair," nowhere does it state that this is the middle volume of a trilogy.
Which it clearly is. It doesn't end, it reaches a "break point" and I didn't find it intriguing enough to want to get the other books (pro tip to publishers: Don't give out middle books in trilogies. Use the first one, it works much better).
Andrew Dennis is a good writer, don't get me wrong, and the book certainly has many redeeming moments. I particularly loved Ruy Sanchez de Casador y Ortiz, even if he was rather too obviously inspired (consciously or otherwise) by Sean Connery's character from Highlander. If he wasn't, then certain laws of fiction apply.
It's a fun read, but I was left so unsatisfied by the break point ending that it kind of ruined it for me. I'd suggest waiting until book 3 (not even listed as coming soon) is out before going with this one.
Sorry, but sometimes breaking one book into two, as appears to have happened here, doesn't work.
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