Captivating who love the detail

This beautiful 1100pages pad will mix true story and mysticism. Basically everything that is told in this book is the true story. But Mary Gentle fun to connect the dots of history by a widespread conspiracy to interfere where mysticism.
The style is excellent. You turn the pages with delight as the characters are deep, tormented and ambiguous.

But beware the story moves slowly. Any dialogue is spread over many pages to get to the desired point. Reported events that we hope to see in the next few pages can apply more than one hundred pages to finally happen.

A book that is savored more than it consumes, even if one does not preclude the other.