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kristianawithak 's review for:
The Dante Club
by Matthew Pearl
I listened to the Poe Shadow and enjoyed it. I had a hard time paying attention to The Dante Club and really getting into it. I kept listening though.
I think Pearl did a good job explaining Dante and The Divine Comedy to someone who did not know anything about it. It is hard to use something as an inspiration and then have to make sure everyone is on the same page as you are.
The most interesting part of the book came towards the very end though. It is always interesting to me when the root of all evil lays in man and man alone. The fact that the killer's time in the war is what led him to kill so many and find such solace in the idea of Hell was extremely well explained.
Overall the book seemed disjointed, shifting from different perspectives. Pearl also did they age old, 'we saved someone from death, but the killer escaped and there's way too many pages left in the book not to realize that the killer will attack the main characters of the book' ploy. It was transparent.
I think Pearl did a good job explaining Dante and The Divine Comedy to someone who did not know anything about it. It is hard to use something as an inspiration and then have to make sure everyone is on the same page as you are.
The most interesting part of the book came towards the very end though. It is always interesting to me when the root of all evil lays in man and man alone. The fact that the killer's time in the war is what led him to kill so many and find such solace in the idea of Hell was extremely well explained.
Overall the book seemed disjointed, shifting from different perspectives. Pearl also did they age old, 'we saved someone from death, but the killer escaped and there's way too many pages left in the book not to realize that the killer will attack the main characters of the book' ploy. It was transparent.