A review by mistyd
Doomsday Book by Connie Willis

5.0

I really loved this book. It was very captivating. There were a few parts that dragged, but over all the book flowed very well. One part stuck out that was very poorly written and researched. *spoiler alert!* At one point during the plague, Kivrin tells a mother to stop nursing her baby and give the baby milk from the cow. It was so ridiculously wrong. Telling the mother that was as good as giving that baby a death sentence. The ONLY chance that child had of surviving was by getting antibodies through her mother's milk. Five minutes research would have given Connie Willis that information. It was so glaringly inaccurate that I did wonder if the rest of the book was very well researched. Honestly, I don't know that much about the 14th century, and since the book was so interesting and captivating that I just forgot about it and enjoyed the rest of the book!