Amy H. (IntrepidOne) reviewed on 8/16/2010 + 157 more book reviews

World without end was written as a sequel to The Pillars of the Earth, but can also be read as a stand alone book. When Starz announced their Pillars of the Earth series, I decided to go ahead and read World Without End (it had been sitting on my to be read shelf for a... while).

World Without End had some big shoes to fill and it did not disappoint. This book took me at least twice as long to read, but I think I have an explanation for that. In other reviews readers mentioned that it has the same characters, just renamed and placed 200 years later than in PoE. To a great degree this is true, and therefore it was much easier for me to put the book down and walk away for even a couple of days because I just didn't feel the urgency that I did before. It's like deja vu all over again. It was good, but not the roller coaster experience that I had with PoE.

Having said all that, this is still a very good book and well worth the time to read the 1014 pages. If you've already read Pillars though, just be aware that it's a bit like chasing the dragon.

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