robynryle 's review for:

The Dante Club by Matthew Pearl
1.0

Yeh, this is slow, slow, slower. There didn't appear to be any looming payoff for the work of reading about maggots and other scary stuff, or for trying to differentiate between many men with three names, even if they're famous (Oliver Wendell Holmes, James Something Lowell and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow).