2008-04-21 Irritating whimsy

I have to say I struggled with this book. I know the author's reputation, and translations are notoriously fickle, so I shall certainly try others of hers, but I found the central characters, the three evangelists, enormously irritating and oh so pleased with themselves. That really killed the rest of the book for me. The plot was okay, although it took too long to gather momentum, and I certainly didn't see the final twist until it was very close. I certainly wouldn't discourage others from giving it a try, but when you do, please, please, please chuck a bucket of extremely cold water over those self-obsessed historians.