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The author adopts quite a chatty tone as she very successfully 'makes history come alive' and takes readers through the eight centuries of social, political, and cultural world history haunted by the terrors of The Plague, The Death, The Pestilence. Comprehensively researched historical information is interspersed with some gripping 'Imagine you are there' segments: diary entries and letters written by fictional characters who are about fourteen.
— Elspeth Cameron, Reading Time
This text offers excellent insights into medieval society as well as human nature in general and would be certain to spark lively classroom discussions about medieval European life for high school students learning about this period of history.
— Susan Whelan, Suite101
