I've tried many times to pick this book up and just haven't been able to connect with it, and as much as I don't like to throw in the towel, I'm going to go ahead and DNF this one. But thank you very much for the opportunity.

“A journey uncompleted is a story half told,” so says the Sicilian servant to Vallon at the beginning of their story. This story spans medieval England, Europe, The Northern lands and around to Constantinople taking 600 pages plus to do so.
The opening scene of butchery, intimating canabilsm sets the mood for what was to be a saga of truths and half truths, of courage and desperation.
I must admit to falling away from the read from time to time. Complex as it is, it’s breadth is huge.
Fascinating historical fiction but not a story for any but the most devoted.

A Hachette ARC via NetGalley
(Opinions expressed in this review are completely my own.)