Title: Did not live up to its promise IMHO
Product review: Basically, did not live up to its promise. I think the plot would have been much, much better served by just setting this in 1400s Europe, doing the massive amount of scholarship associated with the then necessary historical implications, and stretching it out to 700 pages or so. Real people, places, and precursor plot points could all have been picked and tweaked to achieve a real and powerful effect. Maybe the pure analogue *could* have worked, but it didn't. As it is it just seemed like a knockoff of an imaginary book (the one based solidly in history) - and I am not saying do away with the dweomers, werewolves, etc, incorporate that stuff. I would say do away with the clumsy church conspiracy and do away with the CS Lewis style reveal (probably). Also, there is some controversy/shenanigans perhaps in regards to publisher intervention. I wanted to like this book, but I did not.
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