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A review by titanic
Dominion by C.J. Sansom
3.0
"He held out his hand and David and Geoff each took a capsule. As he put the thing in his pocket, David thought, death weighs almost nothing."
This book worried me when I started reading it. Not only did it take ages to get into, I didn't get fully interested in it until the one hundred page mark, but it started out really heavy on the politics. I understand that it's a book about World War Two so naturally it is going to have characters mentioning the flaws of the world, and bringing up matters, like how the Jews are getting removed from Britain but it scared me off at the beginning, which was possibly why it took so long for me to get interested.
Another flaw with this book was, for a long time, Frank Muncaster was the only character that kept me going. I lived for his chapters in the asylum. Nobody in the Resistance interested me, and I certainly did not enjoy the chapters of Gunther. They were boring, all he ever seemed to do was complain about the fog and how much he missed his child, all in a way to seem more human but I never got the feeling the author knew how to truly write him. Sarah eventually became interesting, and then, so did the book. Around the three hundred page mark, I was hooked most.
I was disappointed with the secret that Frank was told. I should have guessed it. It's kind of obvious not that I look back on it. It seems silly that America would risk a submarine for him, though, I feel they would rather place an American spy on British soil and eliminate the risk. It seems more official. Stop the secret from coming out, and nobody would have been any the wiser. Many people in asylums commit suicide, Frank proved this when he attempted it.
The problem with this book is, you have to read through the politics, and you find yourself nearly three hundred pages in and only then when the Germans start to realise that the Resistance want to free Frank does it get interesting. Yet you have to put up with complaining chapters of Gunther, but despite all this, I could see myself reading it again. The ending wowed me, I'll give the author that. I like how I don't truly know what happened with David and Sarah, I hope she left him. She was way to good for him - yet she loves(d?) him so, it makes you wonder. Did they stay together in the United States or go their separate ways. They probably stayed together because they had nobody else. I'm just sad Frank killed himself. He was the best of them all. The author seemed to put a lot of thought into him, down to his damaged arm and creepy smile.
This book worried me when I started reading it. Not only did it take ages to get into, I didn't get fully interested in it until the one hundred page mark, but it started out really heavy on the politics. I understand that it's a book about World War Two so naturally it is going to have characters mentioning the flaws of the world, and bringing up matters, like how the Jews are getting removed from Britain but it scared me off at the beginning, which was possibly why it took so long for me to get interested.
Another flaw with this book was, for a long time, Frank Muncaster was the only character that kept me going. I lived for his chapters in the asylum. Nobody in the Resistance interested me, and I certainly did not enjoy the chapters of Gunther. They were boring, all he ever seemed to do was complain about the fog and how much he missed his child, all in a way to seem more human but I never got the feeling the author knew how to truly write him. Sarah eventually became interesting, and then, so did the book. Around the three hundred page mark, I was hooked most.
I was disappointed with the secret that Frank was told. I should have guessed it. It's kind of obvious not that I look back on it. It seems silly that America would risk a submarine for him, though, I feel they would rather place an American spy on British soil and eliminate the risk. It seems more official. Stop the secret from coming out, and nobody would have been any the wiser. Many people in asylums commit suicide, Frank proved this when he attempted it.
The problem with this book is, you have to read through the politics, and you find yourself nearly three hundred pages in and only then when the Germans start to realise that the Resistance want to free Frank does it get interesting. Yet you have to put up with complaining chapters of Gunther, but despite all this, I could see myself reading it again. The ending wowed me, I'll give the author that. I like how I don't truly know what happened with David and Sarah, I hope she left him. She was way to good for him - yet she loves(d?) him so, it makes you wonder. Did they stay together in the United States or go their separate ways. They probably stayed together because they had nobody else. I'm just sad Frank killed himself. He was the best of them all. The author seemed to put a lot of thought into him, down to his damaged arm and creepy smile.