Ken Follett – World Without End

TYPE: Medieval

RATING: 9/10

REVIEW:

After reading Pillars of the Earth, World Without End was a definite must-have and must-read. After the initial disappointment of finding the novel to be perhaps nothing less than a erotic novel, the story picked up its pace and took me on a ride quite similar to it’s prequel.

The similarities in both books are pretty noticeable and both of them have a lot of politics being played amongst them. It isn’t necessary to read Pillars before this one, but reading it gives you a better idea about the characters who are just mentioned in the passing.

The story has four kids who are tied up in an unlikely bond because of one small incident that took place in their lives when they were young. The incident looms over them till the very end and the suspense in the last hundred pages is amazing.

DESCRIPTION:

A war that lasts a hundred years. A plague that ravishes a continent. A rivalry that could destroy everything.

On the day after Halloween, in the year 1327, four children slip away from the cathedral city of Kingsbridge. In the forest they see two men killed. As adults, their lives become braided together by desire, determination, avarice and retribution. They will see prosperity and famine, plague and war. Yet they will always live under the shadow of the unexplained killing on that fateful childhood day.

Ken Follett’s masterful epic The Pillars of the Earth enchanted millions of readers with its compelling drama of war, passion and family conflict, set around the building of a cathedral. Now World Without End takes readers back to medieval Kingsbridge two centuries later, as the men, women and children of the city once again grapple with the devastating sweep of historical change.

A triumph – Guardian

Medieval life at its best – Daily Express

Follett’s storytelling skills keeps you compulsively turning the pages – Daily Mail