hoboken 's review for:

Napoleon's Last Island by Thomas Keneally

2.0

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Based on the diary of the narrator. I think that, as with Angle of Repose, I'd prefer to read the diary itself. This novel seemed too plot driven, that is, the author was retailing the events in the diary rather than building the characters and letting the actions flow from them. I don't know enough of this history to judge how much he embellished.