The Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follett
My rating: 4 of 5 stars
It's a gripping read, from beginning to end. Character development is excellent; even if some of them seem a bit cookie cutter, they have plenty of background and you empathize deeply with them. At some point, perhaps half-way through, I started to think that the author was jerking me around with too many twists and turns. Something ultimately bad happens just to set the stage for something utterly blissful. And then it reverses. You have something beautiful followed by a horrifying event. It's like driving along a road with one switch back after the other - it felt tiring for a moment or two. But... it's so well done that you just have to get to the destination, so I let myself go and in the end, really enjoyed the ride. I turned the last page a couple of hours ago; I'm still grieving not having those characters in my life anymore.
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