El club Dante by Matthew Pearl
El club Dante

Matthew Pearl

El club Dante

The Dante Club #1

Matthew Pearl with Vicente Villacampa (Translator)

586 pages first pub 2003 (editions)

fiction historical mystery thriller mysterious slow-paced

Description

Boston, 1865. A series of murders, all of them inspired by scenes in Dante's "Inferno." Only an elite group of America's first Dante scholars--Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Oliver Wendell Holmes, James Russell Lowell, and J. T. Fields--can solve the...

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Community Reviews Summary of 1,656 reviews

Moods

mysterious 100%
dark 69%
tense 39%
adventurous 34%
challenging 26%
informative 13%
reflective 8%

Pace

slow 59%
medium 40%

Plot- or character-driven?

Plot: 68% | A mix: 25% | N/A: 6%

Strong character development?

No: 71% | It's complicated: 14% | Yes: 14%

Loveable characters?

No: 40% | It's complicated: 33% | Yes: 20% | N/A: 6%

Diverse cast of characters?

No: 60% | Yes: 20% | It's complicated: 13% | N/A: 6%

Flaws of characters a main focus?

No: 46% | Yes: 46% | It's complicated: 7%

Average rating

3.24

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