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World Without End by Ken Follett

2 reviews

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

lillythebluepaladin's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional informative mysterious sad tense 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

5.0

This book took me SO LONG to finish, but it was SO WORTH IT!

I chose to give it 4 stars, because even though I loved the plot, characters and world building, the many POV’s we got were a bit hard to get through sometimes.

I either loved the characters, or wanted to rip their throats out, in a great way of course, and Follet has a wonderful and sometimes intense (and even borderline  disgusting sometimes, ‘cus the plague was not that fun and cute) writing, and I usually don’t find architecture THAT interesting, but Ken made it really insightful and exciting to read about.

This and The Pillars Of The Earth are absolutely worth reading if you want to read a story with the drama and intensity of GOT, without the dragons…

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abortion, Blood, Child abuse, Death, Grief, Kidnapping, Medical trauma, Pregnancy, Rape, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual harassment, Sexual violence, Violence, and Vomit

Moderate: Ableism, Abortion, Alcohol, Alcoholism, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Bullying, Child death, Death, Death of parent, Domestic abuse, Homophobia, Miscarriage, Misogyny, Trafficking, and War