Title: Interesting, rewarding reading but too slow and weighty
Product review: Reading Pears' novel is a lot like eating an all-day sucker- the process is long and requires patience and perseverance, but the reward is sweetness. Nevertheless, Pears' narrative is too often distracted- the reader has to listen to the same story told, in slightly different variations, four times. While this is a unique and refreshing approach, it makes the novel difficult to follow at times. Pears' characters are colorful and well developed but he spends so much time probing their identities and philosophical dispositions that he has little time to actually write a murder mystery. In fact, this book is less a bona fide mystery as an account of political and religious turmoil. In that regard,however, it is a well crafted story and deserves to be savord.
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