Title: "The Name of the Rose" it is not!
Product review: Drawn to "Incident.." by its bold comparisons to one of my favorite books, "The Name of the Rose", I was very soon disappointed by its differences. While "Name" gave us characters to sympathize with with, "Incident" gives us none. More often than not, the story became as bogged in the mud of details. Inarguably, considerable knowledge of the English civil war is needed to follow the distinct storylines of each of the main actors in this historical drama. Like a prism, the color of the story changes depending on the angle from which it is viewed. Unfortunately, the colors of the people of the story are almost unanimously dull. If you are searching for history-based drama and sympathetic characters, read "Name of the Rose', Jakes' "Kent Family Chronicles" ("The Bastard", "The Americans", etc) or "North and South", or, more desparately, selected books by Jeffrey Archer; leave "Incident at the Fingerpost" on the shelf.
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