World Without End

Title: World Without End
Author: Ken Follett
Published: 2007 by Pan Books (at least this edition is...)
Genre: Historical fiction!
Pages: 1237


It says on both covers something along the lines of You can't put this book down once you pick it up, and, well, that's pretty much 100% accurate. This epic just suck you in.

It's been, oh, some 12 or 13 years since I first read Follett's medieval epic Pillars of the Earth. I was really into things medieval back then, and even used the book as a part of my Finnish matriculant essay exam. World Without End is its sequel, as in it's set in the same place, Kingbridge, around the same cathedral which was built during Pillars of the Earth, but some 200 years later. It's Halloween 1327, and four young children happen to witness the murder of two men in a forest near the cathedral. World Without End follows these four kids, the ups and downs of their lives.

And man. Every time, EVERY SINGLE TIME someone gets an up, they immediately get whacked down. Oh hey, he's doing good, isn't he? Nope, not anymore. But she's figured out how to--- Nope. Well how about him, is he--Nope. Oh come on, at leas---NOPE!!! And then it's HAPPY FUN PLAGUE TIME! \o/ Fun fact: this was the first time ever I actually shouted "Fuck!" out loud because someone sneezed in a book.

Don't get me wrong, I loved every fricking second of reading this book. I spent one weekend on the sofa reading it. Well, some 500 pages of it. I got anxious around page 900 because it would be over soon! World Without End sucked me in good and proper: the characters were such that every time one was whacked down, I had to keep on reading to see that they'd get up again. I think I'll miss them, now that it's over.

So yeah. Good times!


"I'll keep your secret, if you'll keep mine."