Pagan's Daughter, etc.

I read Pagan's Daughter this last week. It doesn't come out here in the States until November (under the title Babylonne, btw), but I've been keen to read it for months now. So I bought a used copy from Australia.
Its origin - it came from half a world away! - is one of the more interesting things about it, sadly. I just never cared about Babylonne. Although Isidore wasn't my favorite character in Pagan's Scribe, I was delighted to see him here, especially when he was talking about the recently-deceased Pagan.
If I hadn't bought it, I would have been eagerly waiting it for another seven months, and the letdown would have been even greater, so it's as well that I bought it now. I'm not even sure that I can recommend it as a library purchase. It's not that I hated it, because I didn't. Catherine Jinks, the author, is a medieval scholar - and you can tell from the text, which seems determined to teach the reader every blessed thing about Languedoc's religious sects in the early 13th century. It's not that I'm opposed to medieval history, of course. I quite like it, and more to the point, I've studied it. But this will be a hard sell, even to fans of the books about Pagan.
Speaking of those books about Pagan - as I mentioned a few days ago, I'm determined not to re-read any books this month. So although I'm longing to go back and re-read the books about Pagan, I have to wait until Tuesday. I consoled myself yesterday with Gerald Morris's Parsifal's Page, which I had to read for a book club. And now I'm filling in the time by reading more by Mercedes Lackey.