This book sounded like it would appeal to me for several reasons. It's a mix of genres--historical fiction and mystery--like two favorite books of mine, The Alienist and The Name of the Rose. Like The Alienist, it incorporates real historical figures; like The Name of the Rose it involves connection...
Hm. Not sure where to go with this review. I'll start off by saying I liked this book. A lot. So much so that I picked up Matthew Pearl's next two books (The Poe Shadow and The Last Dickens) and have them sitting on my HUGE to-read pile. This is probably one of the biggest compliments I can give an ...
I really liked this book! It was hard for me, because so many characters are introduced in the first part of the book, it was difficult for me to keep them all straight. So, I started over, with a cheat sheet and then I could follow the story.This book requires some effort from the reader, but it'...
Isn't it hilarious - I had to ABANDON this. Just a 100 pages short of the finish but I could not do it. John Kurtz, the chief of Boston police, breathed in some of his heft for a better fit between the two chambermaids.The first part of this is much the same as chewing on a brick and trying to make ...
I liked this one OK. I took me awhile to get into it, but once I did it seemed to progress at a good pace. Like the author's other book (The Poe Shadow) this one also had a plethora of characters that I found hard to keep track of at times. I really enjoyed the mystery and the tie in to Dante's Divi...
'The Dante Club' - novel, or plot to get people to read Dante's Inferno? Well, both! And quite effective as both, apparently!I was a bit loath to read this book, because it sounded a little too similar to Arturo Perez-Reverte's 'The Club Dumas'. I can't say that the one does not owe a debt to the ot...
This is a meticulous blend of history and fiction. The real life Dante Club ( Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr., and James Russell Lowell) are hard at work translating The Divine Comedy when a series of (fictional) murders that mimic the tortures of The Inferno begin to plague ...
I suspect people who normally like criminal mystery will hate this one. I usually find that genre dull (with a few exceptions, Conan Doyle the foremost) but this book was interesting. It is more historical fiction than mystery, and more education than light reading.
I read this book before my Goodreads.com days. The review below comes from PageADay Book Lover's Calendar for March 25, 2013. Having famous 19th century writers solve the mystery was an interesting feature of the book, but it doesn't qualify as historical fiction in my opinion.Excellent fun for fans...
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