A review by sitnstew
Eifelheim by Michael Flynn

3.0

Eifelheim was presented to me as a recommendation from a close friend who tends to like books that are very dense in background details and include thick, heavy minutia. I can certainly appreciate that but I tend to find those details tedious. Eifelheim wasn't a significant departure from the type of books I tend to enjoy and Michael Flynn is a very skilled author so I found myself quite taken by the story and setup of the book. It falls smack-dab in the middle of sci-fi and historical fiction and is one of the more original plots I've discovered recently. To say I devoured it would be a far stretch of the imagination - sometimes I got lost in the details - but I have to admit I thoroughly enjoyed the story. Despite Michael Flynn's excellent storytelling, I felt that the novel could have been condensed, possibly even to short story form, even though it isn't a particularly long book.

Overall I enjoyed it and will likely check out more books by Michael Flynn but I doubt I will be raving about it to anyone.