Would you try another book from Alex Beam and/or Michael Prichard?
I don't know
What was your reaction to the ending? (No spoilers please!)
This wasn't a novel so this question doesn't apply
What did you like about the performance? What did you dislike?
Performance was fine, it was the material
If this book were a movie would you go see it?
This is a history, not a novel, as such likely not the subject matter to be made into a movie
Any additional comments?
Beam does not do a very good job describing the development of Mormonism. He does even a weaker job in describing Smith's religious narrative, and religious narrative is what Smith did. Now as the date approached June of 1844, the month when Smith was killed, Beam's book gets much better as he leaves the religious narrative part and plunges into the history around Smith's death. Beam also does a good job in the history describing the aftermath of Smith's death. So the first third or the first half of the book is a one star. The second half is a 3 or 4 star. If you already understand the background to June of 1844 then from this point forward the book is good. If someone doesn't understand the information leading up to June 1844, this is not the book to start with.