A review by katiescho741
The Evening and the Morning by Ken Follett

4.0

If you liked the other books in the Kingsbridge series, you'll like this one. It's more of the same sort of story and characters, but that doesn't make it any less enjoyable.
The Evening and the Morning is full of violence and gore, sex, love, family, and all the soap opera drama you get from a Kingsbridge novel. I like that his books are full of violence and realism and can get quite bleak at times but the main characters always get a happy ending. The book is readable and exciting with some unexpected elements.
One thing that bugged me was how he would give us a person's name and then give a shortened name straight after...like "his name was ........., known as ....." It felt like he didn't want the reader to worry about the consonant-filled anglo-saxon names so he gave us something easier to read instead. Obviously almost nothing is known about the ordinary people during this period so they may well have all shortened their names, but it just felt a little clunky to encounter it so often in the book.
Overall though, I really liked this book. It's easy to read, exciting, scandalous, and an interesting presentation of life during this time.