Livia's Reviews > Circles of Hell

I love creative depictions of hell and I was hoping that this would be the book-version of Bosch's paintings. It kind of was, but I feel like I would have benefited from some SparkNotes because I was very confused at times. It might also help to read the whole work instead of snippets from it. I genuinely enjoyed it when I understood what was going on, though, especially the chapter where some poor sinners have to be trees for the rest of eternity.

Best sentence:

"'I,' he replied, 'am Brother Alberigo, I of the Evil Orchard, Fruiterer.'"

And he is in the last circle? This fruiterer must have done some bad shit.

I think I'm gonna do some research and maybe read it again because I feel like it would be really enjoyable if you know what's going on, but it was sadly a bit too patchy of a reading experience this time to give it more than three stars.

Edit: Apparently Alberigo murdered his brother and nephew during a banquet he had at his house, and the order to bring fruit to the party was the signal for the murder. This is some Borgia stuff and we love it