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Title: exceedingly tedious
Review: I listened to the book on unabridged audio. I usually love long books, but 1/3 of the way through I had to stop. Ms. Willis uses language beautifully, but many of the sections are tedious and repetitive. The story creeps forward slower than her protagonists recovery from her sickbed. Ms. Willis may have researched the Middle Ages, but she didn't do much research on medicine-- it would be have been better to make up some drug than to have the physicians of 2054 using antibiotics we gave up on 30 years ago. If you want good historically based science fiction, read Stephenson's Baroque Cycle.
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