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lucy3107 's review for:
Fall of Giants
by Ken Follett
I was worried when I initially saw the number of negative reviews of this book on Amazon - until I realized that 95+% of the negative reviews are people complaining about the e-book pricing - and few of them have actually read the book.
This is a great book. It gets a little wordy at times, but it is a wonderful tale of intrigue, romance, and political turmoil during World War I. The characters are three-dimensional, with private, public, and professional lives and personalities, and despite the large cast of characters, it's easy to keep them all organized. The dialogue is crisp, and several of the characters manage some excellent one-liners.
If I had to nitpick, I would say that the character outcomes are a bit unrealistic - not one of the main characters is killed during World War I, despite several of them being part of major battles. A Welsh brother and sister, both working class miners, both manage to become MPs, and the two Russian brothers, both penniless peasants, become an American businessman and a member of the Bolshevik inner circle. It would be more realistic if at least one of them wasn't so lucky.
This is a great book. It gets a little wordy at times, but it is a wonderful tale of intrigue, romance, and political turmoil during World War I. The characters are three-dimensional, with private, public, and professional lives and personalities, and despite the large cast of characters, it's easy to keep them all organized. The dialogue is crisp, and several of the characters manage some excellent one-liners.
If I had to nitpick, I would say that the character outcomes are a bit unrealistic - not one of the main characters is killed during World War I, despite several of them being part of major battles. A Welsh brother and sister, both working class miners, both manage to become MPs, and the two Russian brothers, both penniless peasants, become an American businessman and a member of the Bolshevik inner circle. It would be more realistic if at least one of them wasn't so lucky.