I skimmed a fair amount of this because it is too long and too descriptive in ways that slow the otherwise suspenseful story down. Mosse did a great job of describing France though and I felt like I was on a vacation in the South again. If it had been aggressively trimmed, lacked pages of textbook description, and I had been able to suspend disbelief in the basic premise of dreaming someone's 800-year old life, then I probably would've given 4 stars.