Enjoyed it just about as much as I expected to. LOTS of words that were unfamiliar to me as an American English speaker. Reading it on my kindle, it was frustrating that many of the words didn’t have entries in the dictionaries available. BUT there is a glossary at the end that I discovered after reading the whole thing.

Pacing is a bit odd. The beginning is meandering w/ a lot of minor interactions documented and then the last five or so chapters area a whirlwind of major events.

Gruesome and ugly in a way that feels appropriate for the time period. 

Surprisingly little to do with the actual plague beyond it being the reason that the group must travel to outpace the pestilence,  The ending twist was frankly unnecessary and didn’t really shock me. 

CW: ableism, antisemitism, homophobic hate crime, suicide by hanging, traumatic childbirth scene, age gap sexual encounter b/t master and apprentice, some medical gore