YMMV / Silver Sand

• Fair for Its Day: Perhaps more than any of Crockett's novels - appropriately given that it has a Romani protagonist - Silver Sand goes out of its way to depict Romani society respectfully. There's still a lot of racial essentialism going on (as well as passing antisemitic and anti-Catholic remarks).
• Slow-Paced Beginning: Eschewing his usual faster pace, Crockett spends 200-odd pages (well over half the novel) developing the character relationships before properly getting into the action of the story.