The House of Doctor Dee - Peter Ackroyd

Parallel tale set in one house, told in alternate chapters of seventeenth century black magic exponent Dr Dee, and Matthew, who has just inherited the house from his father and finds out more about his father than he previously realised. I am sorry to say that this book was dull. Dull, dull, dull. I love history and am fiendishly interested particularly in this period of British history, but this book left me very cold. The chapters had oodles of paragraphs of pointless descriptions and I found that I actually wasn't that bothered about what happened to either of the two main characters. I carried on reading so that I could add it to the pile of books read, ...  Read the complete review