Peregrinatio (“Pilgrimage” in Latin) is a interesting book. The story itself is fascinating. It takes place in early fourteen century in medieval Spain. This book is essentially a pilgrimage guide to from a father to his son, who is about to become a knight and therefore will be going on pilgrimage to Santiago de Compostela.

At a first glance, this book looked like the typical going on an adventure and becoming on age story. However this book doesn’t have much anything exciting happening. The last I was so disappointed reading a book was when I read A Dance with Dragons by George R.R. Martin (of which I refused to write a book review). While the author writes very beautiful descriptions of the pilgrimage, almost very Tolkien like in detail. The story just lacks excitement in my opinion.

Thus said, I’m a medievalist at heart so I appreciate gorgeous writing that helps me paint a picture in my imagination regarding this fascinating era in human history.