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The Evening and the Morning
- Kingsbridge, Book 0
- Narrated by: John Lee
- Length: 24 hrs and 19 mins
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Summary
From master storyteller Ken Follett, The Evening and the Morning is a historical epic that ends where The Pillars of the Earth begins.
A Time of Conflict
It is 997 CE, the end of the Dark Ages. The king’s grip on the country is fragile and chaos reigns. A young boat builder dreams of a better future after a devastating Viking raid shatters the life he hoped for.
Lives Intertwined
A Norman noblewoman follows her husband to a new land only to find her life there shockingly different; and a capable monk at Shiring Abbey has a vision of transforming his humble home into a centre of learning admired throughout Europe.
The Dawn of a New Age
Now, with England at the dawn of the Middle Ages, these three people will each come into dangerous conflict with a ruthless bishop, who will do anything to increase his wealth and power, in an epic tale of ambition, rivalry, love and hate.
Thirty years ago we were introduced to Kingsbridge in The Pillars of the Earth, and now in this prequel, international bestseller Ken Follett will take us on a journey into a rich past, which will end where his masterpiece begins.
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- Ed
- 25-09-20
Tell me if you've heard this one before
As a stand alone novel, it's ok, maybe even good. As a part of a sensational series which I've read several times it's the worst of the four.
A young genius hero builder falls in love with an intelligent and practical noble woman. Their love is forbidden and they are kept apart for years. The noble woman makes bad choices and suffers horrendous treatment by the other nobles. There's an evil Bishop and a good prior locked in a battle between god and greed.
That's the plot of the first book Pillars of the earth. It's also the exact same plot of this book. Except without all the fascinating and engrossing characters.
If this were a film I'd call it a remake. It's the same book, with almost the same characters just done worse.
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- Farniboy
- 08-10-20
Poor Effort
I bought the Pillars of the Earth 30 years ago and I was entranced. How could the story of the building of a cathedral be so exciting, interesting and moving? I recommended the book to all my friends and it soon became a firm favourite.
The sequel, World Without End, was a pale imitation of the first book. It stuck too closely to the original, and the wrap around mystery was disappointing .
The third book was a marked improvement, the action wasn't just set in Kingsbridge, the scale was bigger and the book was better for this. It actually laid the groundworks for the English Civil War and that was the direction that I'd hoped the author would go when I heard a new book was imminent.
This however is poor. Its a prequel of The Pillars of the Earth set in the reign of Ethelred the Unready one of the late Anglo-Saxon kings. The characters of headstrong proto feminist noble woman, handy builder learning as he goes along (with a foreign interlude) and the noble/corrupt priest are all here. The characters are thinly written and the situations they find themselves in are uninteresting. Whole storylines are lifted from Follett's own books. Storylines are set up and fizzle as though the author had got as bored as I had.
Ken Follett is a frustrating writer, some of his books are superb, some are fine page turnovers but some are thieves of your valuable reading/listening time. This book is one of his worst and easily the worst Kingsbridge book.
It's the last time I'll automatically download one of the authors books in the first week. I'll wait for more listener reviews.
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- Ruth
- 19-10-20
The narrator is one toned I can't listen any more
Really struggling listening to this. Only got to chapter 4. No charecter in the narration.
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- Madeleine
- 19-09-20
a book to read over and over
what a wonderful story. captivating from the start to the end. I could start again.
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- F. Hartas
- 24-09-20
Another great book from Follet
Not entirely sure where the low ratings are coming from. I thoroughly enjoyed this book, it takes unexpected twists and turns, keeping you wondering what will happen next.
I ended up binge listening to it and now I'm sad it's over...
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- mollyeyre
- 28-09-20
A brilliant tale
This is so well written, however, I felt so stressed in parts because of the way people were treated, or how some behaved that I found it difficult to keep going! However......... I had to keep reading as I NEEDED to know the fate of the characters.
This is the sign of a brilliant author, I was living WITH the characters and was fully involved!
But..... So stressful! 😊
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- alherb
- 14-11-20
Disappointed
Narrator is truly awful. I had to stop. I loved the other books but not this one.
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- Nicola
- 29-09-20
Excellent
Enjoyed this so much more than the disappointing Column of Fire, the last of The Kingsbridge trilogy, it’s a worthy prequel and much more in the vein of Pillars of the Earth and Workd Without End.
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- dk.bookworm
- 28-09-20
Another great book
It’s a while since I originally read (listened to ) this series, but I quickly found myself back in time.
As you would expect, a wonderfull story, with great characters... no one does evil villains like Ken Follett and John Lee does a brilliant job of bringing them to life.
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- Robert J. Punton
- 27-09-20
Magnificence
Follet and Lee at their magnificent best a partnership born for storytelling, Ken writes a great tale John bring it to lfe with his silky skillful tones. Want to reread trilogy after listening to this prequel. A must read listen
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