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World Without End by Ken Follett

5 reviews

melina_30's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional inspiring relaxing tense slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Medical content, Physical abuse, Blood, Abortion, Sexual assault, Sexual harassment, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Death, Domestic abuse, Injury/Injury detail, Miscarriage, Misogyny, Murder, Pandemic/Epidemic, Emotional abuse, Rape, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Torture, and Religious bigotry

Moderate: Grief, Adult/minor relationship, Child death, Child abuse, Death of parent, Fire/Fire injury, War, and Toxic relationship

Minor: Slavery and Suicidal thoughts

goldenlake's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional mysterious reflective tense slow-paced

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

4.25

It's very interesting reading a book that takes place during plague-times with COVID now to think of. Like the first book, I enjoyed this one quite a bit and would highly recommend it to anyone that can stand reading such a long book. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore, Sexual assault, Pedophilia, Child death, Animal death, Death of parent, Sexual harassment, Animal cruelty, Rape, Physical abuse, Miscarriage, Abortion, Death, Toxic relationship, Terminal illness, Body horror, Child abuse, Sexual violence, Stalking, Injury/Injury detail, Domestic abuse, Violence, Infidelity, Adult/minor relationship, Blood, and Sexual content

Moderate: Sexism, Classism, Alcohol, Infertility, Pregnancy, Dementia, and Religious bigotry

Minor: Grief, War, and Vomit

obst_7's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional hopeful inspiring sad tense slow-paced

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

5.0

Amazing. The sheer lenght of this wonderful story made it feel like I was truly in the same world as the characters, which I've got to know throughout their lives. A ton of build up that leads to some memorable dramatic scenes that made me gasp out loud. The themes of loss, moving on and creating and changing (!) your own, imperfect path in life, even If it means to endure lot's of pain and failure, were woven into the whole story. Though not flawless, the book does so many things just right, even better than the first one.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Torture, Rape, War, Toxic relationship, and Sexual violence

Moderate: Pedophilia

wifeslife's review against another edition

relaxing medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Child abuse, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Injury/Injury detail, Murder, Religious bigotry, Self harm, Bullying, Misogyny, Sexual assault, Sexual harassment, Sexual violence, and Toxic relationship

seanml's review against another edition

dark informative mysterious sad tense medium-paced

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

4.25

If you liked the Pillars of the Earth then you’re going to love World Without End because it is more and more of the same (in a good way). Hundreds of years after the first plot, we once again return to a narrative of multiple POVs, generational conflicts, antagonists and protagonists succeeding in the last second, questionable morals from our main characters, secrets, intrigue, Follett’s tendency to have to describe the breasts of any named female character, despicable villains who keep getting away with it, and a never-ending game of feudal chess. The book begins with four crucial characters, and we follow them through their interconnected lives in a way that is just as if not more compelling than the original. This all said, I highly recommend, with the reservations that it suffers from the same strange choices of Pillars: graphic sex, needlessly detailed rape, and everyone wanting to bang the self-insert. 8.5/10.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Blood, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Medical content, Violence, Gaslighting, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexism, Sexual assault, Death, Death of parent, Infidelity, Misogyny, Murder, Sexual content, Sexual harassment, Sexual violence, Terminal illness, and Toxic relationship

Moderate: Adult/minor relationship, Alcohol, Body shaming, Child abuse, Classism, Genocide, Islamophobia, Kidnapping, Pregnancy, Abortion, Domestic abuse, Forced institutionalization, Gore, Stalking, War, and Xenophobia

Minor: Suicidal thoughts, Confinement, Dementia, Homophobia, Torture, Child death, Miscarriage, and Outing