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

2.0

The more I sit and think about this book the more and more angry I’m getting! The setting, time period, concept, and bookishness were so good. I was enchanted with the abbey and the gothic vibes and Willam as a Sherlockian character was interesting. The pedantic repetitious pages and pages of historical, political, and religious expositions were ridiculous and don’t even pay off in the end for the effort you expend wading through them. The ending felt rushed and the mystery of the missing book and it’s “protector” were just lame. I will never get the hours of my reading life back, that this slog of a read took from me.