A review by baba_yaga_77
The Dante Club by Matthew Pearl

3.0

This book was so hard to get into. It's super dry at the beginning, and doesn't really pick up and get interesting about three quarters of the way in. The story jumps around to different characters and times which makes it extremely confusing at first. I understand that this book is really about the individuals who helped publish the first Americanized translation of Dante's Divine Comedy, but I wish the author had integrated more Dante into his story. I feel like I should have just read Dante's Inferno instead.