A review by mylxa
In Sunlight and in Shadow by Mark Helprin

4.0

Read it for the gorgeous sentences. Possibly, those will sustain you through the plot that stalls in the last third of the book. At least, that's how it worked for me.This book is filled with beautiful, romantic and lyrical writing. It works very well as a love story of Harry and Catherine. It's also maddeningly slow in pacing. It may have been necessary to inject Harry's war experiences as prelude to his final face-off with the mafia. But did it have to go on as long as it did? The novel lost all momentum then and it was something of a chore to hang on until the end.