Megan P. (4ntrvlr) reviewed Justinian's Flea: Plague, Empire, and the Birth of Europe on + 8 more book reviews
The topic is provocative but the execution of the book wasn't as compelling as I had hoped. I think a shorter book with more concentrated info would have been better.

Good book, but as others have said, it's hard to follow and he wanders. His style puts the byzantine back in Byzantine Empire.