The Plague Tales begins in an altered reality of the present. The present situation wouldn't be playing out as it is without a much deeper, past story full of characters.
Today’s story involves
archaeological research and a sterile lab in which something quickly goes wrong
. . . as in potential-bubonic plague-pandemic-wrong.
The past story about
a 14th Century Jewish physician who pushed beyond culturally
accepted boundaries of medical discovery kept me reading. I’m a sucker for
books of all kinds set in pre-20th Century Europe.
The book wraps up
both fast-paced story lines with suitable endings but then tacks on a two-page
epilogue that sets up more to come . . . a tactic that irritates me. I see
online that two more books have followed. If I ever get beyond being annoyed by
the epilogue, I might read them because I liked the book itself.
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