I was too lazy to write my own review for this book, and thankfully this person's review perfectly summed up my feelings on it:

In the Hand of Dante is a decent enough book. It's major faults, in my opinion, lie in the first half of the book, where it seems that the author hadn't much direction in which to take his characters. Indeed, even their relationship to each other is extremely slow in being presented. I found myself often wondering more about why the characters were doing what they were, rather than looking forward to their actions.
Stylistically, however, it is obvious that the author is a fantastic wordsmith. He is very skilled at writing in the style of the time, place and point of view.
All in all, this wasn't a bad book, though it wasn't a great one either. I don't know that I would ever really recommend it to anyone. However, I don't regret having read it, so I guess I wouldn't suggest avoiding it either.

RELEASE NOTES:

Left on a bench outside of the classroom medical building, on the side adjacent to the library!