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Title: Plodding, slow and a sleep aid
Review: I'm sure this book is great if I could ever make it through. I finally gave up about 1/3 of the way in. Why does Ms. Willis have to write about every single thought, emotion and insignificant story point that has nothing to do with the plot? I listened to the audio version and many times I just wanted to press a 30 second skip button to get the story moving. Several times I just blurted out "come on already! how many times is Kivrin going to go through her symptoms to self diagnose her illness?!". This book is opposite of Crichton's novel Timeline which was fast paced but lacked the historical knowledge and depth that Ms. Willis obviously included. The 14th century was a pivotal century in Western civilization, it would be exciting to find a book that would bring it alive. This book fails at that.
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