Peggy L. (paigu) reviewed on 10/21/2009 + 120 more book reviews

Entertaining! The characters are a bit too larger-than-life (as an example, the main female, Caris, warps from merchant wonder to (almost) town alderman to nun/Mother Superior to founder of hospital/modern medicine (sic) all within the 40-50 years of her life. Wow!) but you can't help but like them. Even the evil characters are enjoyable because their evildoing are written with such light humor. Of course, life back then was probably much tougher and harsher than what is described in this book, plus not sure if the timing of the historical events are entirely accurate, but this was not meant to be a history reference book.

P.S. This book should be retitlted "Book Without End" 1000+ pages, whew!

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