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Title: Too long, often tedious, but still of some interest.
Review: Like others, I found the writing in this book overly repetitive (after being told for about the sixth time, I was pretty much willing to accept that one third to one half of Europe was wiped out by the plague) and sometimes tedious. Something that was particularly annoying was how the characters were constantly coming into and going out of most scenes, especially in the future part of the story. Similarly, the plague and influenza victims all seemed to be on a rollercoaster of getting worse, then gettng better, then getting worse, ad nauseum. It may be an accurate description of the progess of those diseases, but it hardly makes for page turning reading. Anyway, despite this, I stuck with the book and actually liked a couple of characters (Kirvin and Colin). And the historical insights were interesting. Overall, I don't feel I wasted my time, but the story could have been written much better.
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