ktstorm 's review for:

Winter in Madrid by C.J. Sansom

2.0

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There's a good story in here somewhere, but up until the final third it's buried underneath pages of one-dimensional characters meeting each other in cafes. Even the main characters only have one personality trait each - Harry is honourable, Barbara is insecure, Bernie is a socialist. Sandy appears to be a much more complex character but this barely gets explored. In the final part, stuff finally happened but up until this point there was nothing that made me want to pick up this book, hence why it's taken me NINE MONTHS to read 500 pages!