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Title: The Belt of Gold by Cecelia Holland ISBN: 0-345-34108-2 Publisher: Ballantine Books Pub. Date: March, 1987 Format: Mass Market Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $6.95

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Average Customer Rating: 2.5 (2 reviews)

Rating: 4
Summary: First-rate Swashbuckler
Comment: For those who enjoy the genre of the traditional historical novel (Thomas B. Costain, Samuel Shellabarger etc.) this novel is a good choice. Not as subtle psychologically as some of Holland's other works, it performs admirably as a pure adventure. The "feel" of being in ancient Byzantium is extraordinary.

Rating: 1
Summary: A dud; Holland has done it much better elsewhere!
Comment: Don't know why she wrote and published this very wooden tale of "adventure and intrigue" in old Byzantium. It doesn't work at all. The characters are cut-outs, the narrative lacks even the hint of crackle and the plot is thumpingly dull. Well, perhaps the concept has promise. Yet, Ms. Holland has written much better at other times and when covering other periods. I particularly liked her saga-like novel (now apparently out of print): Two Ravens, a psychological study, in saga form, of the break down of an already dysfunctional Icelandic family in the Middle Ages not long after William the Conqueror gained England. But her foray into the realm of the Byzantines, in this book anyway, is best forgotten. So I'll say no more. -- S. W. Mirsky