A review by ltaranto
The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco

4.0

Eco’s style, while complicated, was faithful to that of his setting and also embodied it’s narrator very sincerely. I appreciated his use of voice and how it changed from the earnestness of youth during most of the story to the weary confessions of a man in his last years during natural breaks. The complexity and politics involved in both the main and secondary arcs were interwoven very deftly. After getting through this book about the preciousness and deadliness of books I know why it has such a following. However, I didn’t find it page turning until the last three quarters when the stakes were truly high