I understand that the series was written to be "historically accurate", but really honestly does every person in the book have to succumb to some horrible debilitating accident, disease, or death???? Although this may have been true to life for that era of time, there is definitely nothing enjoyable about reading so much detail about so much misery. When a person is reading a fiction series, at least I for one want it to be an enjoyable read, even if the subject matter is serious. It could have been written as historically accurate without continual devastating events one on top of the other. I also started losing track of the characters, there were so many and they just sort of get all jumbled in the mix. I enjoyed the first and second books in the series, the third I liked less, and this fourth one I just couldn't continue...I quit about half-way through it and will not read the next.