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Les Piliers de la Terre by Ken Follett

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charitie's review against another edition

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adventurous challenging dark emotional informative inspiring sad medium-paced

Plot- or character-driven? A mix
Strong character development? Yes
Loveable characters? It's complicated
Diverse cast of characters? Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5

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baileyes's review against another edition

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adventurous informative inspiring mysterious reflective fast-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Plot
Strong character development? Yes
Loveable characters? Yes
Diverse cast of characters? No
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5

A fantastic story and I learned so much about cathedrals and building practices in the time period. Some parts felt a bit rushed to me with dialogue or actions at times feeling like a way to get from a to b rather than unfolding naturally but it’s also hard to ask for it be more drawn out with such a hefty book.

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worm_book's review against another edition

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adventurous informative sad tense medium-paced

Plot- or character-driven? A mix
Strong character development? Yes
Loveable characters? It's complicated
Diverse cast of characters? No
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

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karingforbooks's review against another edition

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challenging dark sad tense slow-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Plot
Strong character development? No
Loveable characters? Yes
Diverse cast of characters? No
Flaws of characters a main focus? No

2.25

MISOGYNY CENTRAL.
Look, it’s a treatise on cathedral architecture with some characters thrown in. Think moby dick for cathedrals in medieval England and you’ve nailed it. Except moby dick wasn’t so heavy on the anti women front, which says something because it’s 100 years older than this book. I liked the setting, Jack, Aliena, Elizabeth, and sally. Martha got forgotten which is sad. Tom was oblivious but nice enough. I desperately hate William and alfred for *reasons* and the pacing is not there. It’s so slow in the first half then gets better at the end then slows down but speeds up simultaneously in the last hundred, which is not great. I did like the historical context in which it occurred (white ship, Henry ii) but thought there was just a bit too much close connection with real historical figures. Course that could be because by halfway through I was just angry at the book in general

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thecatladybooknook_penny's review against another edition

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adventurous dark emotional tense medium-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Plot
Strong character development? Yes
Loveable characters? It's complicated
Diverse cast of characters? N/A
Flaws of characters a main focus? No

4.0

Wow what a great story! I loved the setting and characters, their growth as well as how Follett kept you hanging on wanting to know more! There were definitely a lot of violent scenes (lots of killing and descriptions of that which I don't mind so much because it is true to the historical facts but also lots of sexual assault scenes as well as being in the head of the scum committing those. I did lots of skipping over those as well as skipping a few lines when we were in the scum's head when he started thinking of the next victim.) There were also a lot of sexual situations and being in the head of a couple main character's heads which I didn't care to read either so skipped over that. You still get the gist of what's going on without having to read that. Highly recommend this book IF you are willing to do the "skip method".

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