The Plague Book

Highly unsatisfied with this book that had the potential to be really great. Set back in 1348, during the disasterous time of the plague in Europe, this book by Joanne Dahme could have been great. I feel that the author had a concept in mind and every once in a while as I read, I felt the characters and the plot were truly starting to improve and then...the story went sporadic and flat again. I only continued to read the story because of my ultimate curiousity on how it would end. However, as I read I found myself confused and annoyed trying to figure out the storyline. The dialogue was also seriously lacking and took turns that I wasn't expecting. There were times when I was reading that I interpreted something completely different than what the characters did and was therefore wondering, what I wasn't getting. I also was dissappointed in the dialogue and descriptions...I felt that it didn't quite match the time period much.
The story is a very simple story that was told and it compares to the story of Princess and the Pauper. I enjoyed the characters of Nell, George, and Henry and the author had a perfect villain. However, these characters could have been written to a whole new level. I felt like the book was a quick read and was quickly written. It is a short book and if having been written to a higher standard probably would have been twice as long. It would have gone into much more depth into the past of the characters, more in depth into the lives of the Princess and her royal family, and would have had more dialogue and definitely more passion and suspense during the "princesses" journey. It wasn't the worst book but definitely could have been seriously better!!!