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I really wanted to love this but the story is too similar to Ken Follett's The Pillars of the Earth but not nearly as well written.

Fantastic!! Loved it.

I can't finish this. I love historical fiction and I love other books McCullough has written but the first two in this series are filled with too much detail. I never know what's happening or what the story is. Lots of side characters with no clear connection to the main families the novel focuses on. I'm going to skip the 3rd in the series, Fortune's Favorites, as it seems the same, and try the 4th, Ceasar's Women.

DNF. The description sounds like this is a fictionalized story of the girls in Manson’s world. It’s not. It’s just a made up story like Manson’s. Here, Manson is a guy named Russell; I didn’t read enough to know more. Why write a book about a story just like the real story, and just change the names? I’ve already read the Manson story, I was hoping this was about the actual girls involved.