I felt like this book was set sufficiently outside of Kingsbridge and following characters only tangentially related to the town that it felt like a bit of a stretch to call it a Kingsbridge novel. But I suppose as times change and the world becomes more globalised, it would be weird to contain it to just England.
I really liked Ned. He felt like a combination of all the good things about Prior Phillip and Merthin. I also liked how he fell in love with Sylvie despite his attachment to Margret.
I also liked the message of religious tolerance and the details about Sylvie’s stationery/book business. I felt like I could smell the paper 😍
It was interesting how Follet inserted his characters into real life events/interacted with real historic figures. I felt like I learnt a little bit 😅
So I said the previous book was a bit predictable because it followed a very similar trajectory to the first, but this one quite often left me wondering what was going to happen next. So looking forward to book 4 now 😊
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