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Medieval mess (A Book Review: World without End by Ken Follett)

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Over the years, I have randomly posted a couple of book reviews over this blog. This is a rare thing, although I do frequently post short reviews on my Instagram. Some books just need to be reviewed more, I think. Read this one about a month and a half ago. World without End (2007) by Ken Follett is by far the thickest book I have ever read (it was 1237 pages thick), but also one of the most intriguing. It is actually the second book in the Kingsbridge Series and is the sequel to Follett’s 1989’s Pillars of the Earth. Even if you have not read the first one, it's totally okay, because World without End is good even as a stand-alone novel. This is due to the fact that although set in the same town as Pillars of the Earth – Kingsbridge, the characters featured in it are the descendants of some Pillars characters 157 years later.  Uh did they change the 'insert picture' option? Thank God I still have this image in my gallery             I would say that the main focus of the n