Thanks as always to Doctor-Q for the translations!

I know what hard work they are.

Doctor-Q also wrote:

>The second book: PURITY OF BLOOD is a really interesting story which reflects the

>problems that had the families with some non-Christian ancestors

(Jews in this case) during

>that time.

The plot includes the liberation of a girl from a convent, problems

(really big

>problems) with the Sacred Inquisition, lots of fencing… etc.

>Unfortunately it looks like the original screenplay of the movie does not include much of

>this book

– because it is not that easy to adapt it to a single guideline plot.

I think it's really a shame they couldn't fit some of it in.

This is my favorite book of the series.

One of the biggest surprises I'd had, reading them, is how much I enjoyed the parts that let you inside

Íñigo's head, what he's thinking, how his opinions have changed with experience.

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This is a book where

Íñigo has a lot of time to reflect, since dungeons are a good place to do that!

I like the part about

"people who read only one book"

(gente de un solo libro) especially.

And the scene at the end

(maybe this is a spoiler?) when

Íñigo is pretending to be asleep, and Caridad is sewing, and the capitán comes in, and what comes after that.

(I carefully made it not a spoiler)
Since they are doing the Breda part, maybe they'll film another one of my favorite scenes from the books

-- from the last book

, when

Íñigo is waiting to see the conde-duque, and he's looking at the new paintings of battles on the walls, and thinking,

"I've _been_ in this painting, and if you weren't there, you _can't imagine_ how it was.

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I just read the Club Dumas and was astonished at all the connections to the Alatriste books

-- it seems don Arturo is one of those fun authors who leaves clues all over that refer from one book to another.

The illustration of Milady de Winter with the knife could really be a picture of two other people from Our Story; and the cabalistic magic squares

(I assume) are related to the one on the

"dije" from Angélica's necklace.

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.Gotta love that kinda of thing.

(They call it Intertextuality in my line of work, but I mostly just call it fun.

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saludos desde texas usa
bradamante