I think I would rate this lower if I hadn't read this as an audiobook. The narrator's accent was so beautiful and engaging. That with the writing style made it so I could listen and get lost and come up a couple hours later without realizing that much time had passed. The story itself didn't grip me and I truly didn't care for the characters very much. But everything was passable and then the narration and writing style made it so I just blitzed through and found it an agreeable book all around. 

I do think the characters have a lot of room for others to enjoy them more then I did and I can think of several people in my life that the plot would be very gripping for. So I definitely recommend if anyone is into a historical piece focused on plague.