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Title: Good story with an unbalanced ending
Review: I enjoyed this book -- I am a big fan of historical fiction, and found this story to be carefully researched and historically accurate. However, I was not surprised to read, after I finished the book, that the author Ms. Brooks was a Washington Post correspondent in the Middle East. The ending almost seemed like a way for Brooks to somehow include her knowledge of Islam in a novel about 17th century England -- it was a bit disenchanting, and subtracted from the believability of the novel. However, the rest of the novel was enthralling - I would still highly recommend the book to other readers.
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