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In this sequel of Ken Follett's The Pillars of the Earth, the reader finds itself near the end of the English Reformation when families and neighbors frequently find themselves aligned on differing sides of a Christian war between Protestant reformers and Catholic traditionists. Ken Follett has chosen to portray this war using two characters, each assuming positions of influence for each party. Ned Willard's, the novel's protagonist, obtains employment in Queen Elizabeth's court after his family
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I'm exhausted. Not because it is a 900 page book, but because the storyline is so good. I don't know how Follett does it, weaving an extensive fictional story into the actual history, but it's great. Now I need to rest!
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3.5 stars, rather than 4 because it's a period of history that I'm already pretty familiar with, so sometimes it just didn't hold my attention as much as the two previous books did. That said, Ned Willard, Sylvie Palot, Rollo Fitzgerald, and Pierre Aumande are intriguing characters set among the real-life people of the turbulence 16th century Europe.
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