Oh, what a long read it was, but no regrets - the book is really good. I was fascinated reading The Pillars of the Earth and "World Without End" enchanted me from the first pages. 
 ,,World Without End" is considered the sequel to ,,Pillars of the Earth", though none of the original characters reappear. However the descendants of the main family in "Pillars of the Earth" gather to tell the new story about Kingsbridge and the people tied to it. Beginning two centuries after "The Pillars of the Earth" in the same town, this book has a lot of interesting characters and combines three decades of love, action, treason, history, corruption, difficult and adventurous life. The characters are so lively and real. This book marks the new era to Kingsbridge, the era of new ideas about medicine, commerce, architecture, and justice. 
 Though the technical things slowed me a little bit. Also I found some repetition (comparing the first and the second books) which reduced my fangirlism in some way, like: two brothers- one good and one bad. The good one is a great builder, not a great fighter, he has difficulties to reach the popularity, but after some time abroad he becomes skilled and famous. The bad one gets a bad end of course. The life long love of the main character suffers some hardship and creates something new in business. 
 There was much suffering, cruelty and injustice in the story so I couldn't help but hope that at some point it must get better for the good and worse for the bad ones - this is after all a novel. I liked that the story line had so much unpredictable things. The author skillfully combines the important far off catastrophes into his book, like the Great Famine, the Peasant's Revolt, the Black Death and Hundred Years War. The lives and the towns are changed forever. 
 This book is not a history lesson about the fourteenth century, but a complex story about lives of ordinary people - their loves and losses, ups and downs, despair and suffering. It's a touching and cruel book, but the fourteenth century was a strange, cruel and dark time. And when I reached the last page, I knew that this is one of those books which I'll remember for a long time. I was spellbound by Mr. Follett's powerful vision of life in the Middle Ages. It is one more fascinating, mesmerizing and gripping book for me. 
 I tried to watch the TV-series "World Without End", but for me it was a real meh and even a badly made interpretation of the book. Though I really liked "Pillars of the Earth" screen adaptation.