This story takes place in the 1300's during the time of a plague, and I happened to finish it during the 2020 plague. Where Follett shines is his historical authenticity. The characters and situations have a lot in common with the characters and situations of the first book, maybe too much feels similar.

The characters may have descended from the characters in the first book, but their stories are their own. This is a completely different story that has been set in a different era. If you're afraid that you have to read the first brick of a book in this series, fear not. So, if your cup of tea is the historical drama with multiple storylines, the A story being about the challenges that face the two main protagonists who are meant to be together but are pulled apart constantly by circumstances beyond their control, then this book is for you. It takes a lot of effort to build a story world of this magnitude, and Ken Follett is obviously a master builder (the main characters are a master builder and a nun - see what I did there?). Three years in the writing, and nearly eighteen years since its predecessor, World Without End breathes new life into the epic historical novel and once again shows that Ken Follett is a masterful author writing at the … ( more) In a world where proponents of the old ways fiercely battle those with progressive minds, the intrigue and tension quickly reach a boiling point against the devastating backdrop of the greatest natural disaster ever to strike the human raceâ?the Black Death.

This time the men and women of an extraordinary cast of characters find themselves at a crossroad of new ideasâ? about medicine, commerce, architecture, and justice. The cathedral and the priory are again at the center of a web of love and hate, greed and pride, ambition and revenge, but this sequel stands on its own.

World Without End takes place in the same town of Kingsbridge, two centuries after the townspeople finished building the exquisite Gothic cathedral that was at the heart of The Pillars of the Earth.

Critics were overwhelmedâ?â?it will hold you, fascinate you, surround youâ? ( Chicago Tribune)â?and readers everywhere hoped for a sequel. HTML:In 1989 Ken Follett astonished the literary world with The Pillars of the Earth, a sweeping epic novel set in twelfth-century England centered on the building of a cathedral and many of the hundreds of lives it affected.

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