Set in the 16th century ranging from just before the reign of Queen Elizabeth I and just after, the action switches between France and England and introduces motivated and strong characters, heros, sheros, and villains, but almost all of them at least partially sympathetic. We are still in Kingsbridge (but also in London and Paris) where the great cathedral--built in Pillars of the Earth--and the bridge (built in World Without End) are located, but now Europe is embroiled in screaming controversy--and sometimes outright war) between Catholics and Protestants. Much action and romance.
I have now started Of Love and Evil by Anne Rice. I always relax into Rice's lush prose and lovingly described world. Now having just left Ken Follett's 16th century, I jump back a century to the time of Michaelangelo, Raphael, and Pope Leo X and we are in Rome. Toby, the hit man turned angel's assistant, must now help a deserving young man deal with a ghost or evil spirit which is haunting his home and poisoning his friends and neighbors to believing he is a witch.
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