Title: Nowhere close to "Pompeii"...
Product review: If you are considering this item because you have enjoyed the author's excellent "Pompeii: A Novel" - forget it. This book is not only quite inferior to "Pompeii" in terms of the quality of research and the breadth of the story, but also the "Archangel" is - simply put - rather boorish, dragged-out and disjoint. Considering the number of half-developed characters, the number of half-cooked sub-plots completely irrelevant to the story, and a rather illogical ending, a reader cannot shake the feeling that this book was supposed to be twice as long, but the author himself got completely bored of it all half along the way, retroactively inserted a dozen events to make a quick conclusion possible, and abandoned his work.
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