A review by notlikethebeer
A Simple Scale by David Llewellyn

2.0

There were some parts of this that were really good, and it was a look into various times I’ve known little about. Ultimately, however, I felt it was quite lacking. The use of the present-day events being overshadowed by 9/11 could have been fantastic but was under-utilised in terms of tone and atmosphere. The overall plot/’mystery’ was never really solved for me and I finished it thinking… ‘so what’. I guess there was something there about the decision made by one of the characters almost right at the end, but it came too late for me to feel anything other than disgust: the blurb highlighted that it was about history repeating itself, but that wasn’t explored adequately for me to vibe with it really.