eily_may 's review for:

The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco

3.0

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I will readily admit that the author is incredibly skilled and he has an amazing way with words. Nevertheless I struggled to finish this book. Maybe it was the passages in Latin or perhaps the lack of any kind of a developed female character but overall I found this book a trial and was almost egging on the murderer to finish them all off just to be done with the thing!