SPOILER

What an opening scene…do you believe in curses?

I finally finished this book! It took me nearly a month, but I did it.

There’s so much to this book, that I can’t really give it a good book review. I was never good at book reviews anyway. It’s a story about a group of people from all walks of life that find themselves living in the cathedral town of Kingsbridge Priory.

While a cathedral is being built, politics and pettiness of enemies get in the way. People fall in love. People make bad decisions. People die.

The book was nearly 1000 pages, yet I still felt rushed at the end. I’m wondering if the author would have told the story better if he made this a trilogy or series. Overall, I felt it was a good book and would recommend it.

I bought this in Milan to keep me occupied on the train to Paris. For the small selection of english language books I found there, this was very good.

This is about the 5th time I’ve read this book.