Prisoner of The Inquisition

If a book could win a prize for dragging on the most, Prisoner of the Inquisition would win. Easy.

The book focuses on the struggle of living through the Spanish Inquisition. The characters manage to befriend Christopher Columbus (despite one of them being a servant).

Everything about this book is trying too hard. I’m interesting, I promise! It screamed, when I was stupidly drawn in by the cover, red and dark which made the book seem adventurous and gripping. Unfortunately the writing didn’t follow the cover, jumping into a tale that wasn’t gripping at all. After only 40 pages I’d read enough to know that I would hate this book. I didn’t care about the characters; I’d had no time to get to know them as they were all killed off within 2 pages of meeting them (In fact I was almost glad when they stopped being there to irritate me!)

It almost redeemed itself towards the middle when events became more interesting, but I still couldn’t empathise with the pathetic characters as they wandered around feeling sorry for themselves.

Reading this book was painful, all I wanted to do was throw it in a corner and forget about the useless characters and their farfetched stories. I have definitely learnt one vital lesson, never judge a book by its cover.

Not quite the worst book I've read but definatley a close second.

1/10