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A review by juliusmoose
At the Table of Wolves by Kay Kenyon
2.0
I found this book pretty boring, and I finally gave up about 150 pages from the end and skipped to the last 30 pages.
The book has a pretty good premise: it’s set in the ’30s and trauma from the Great War unleased psi talents in the population. The Nazis have taken over in Germany and are maybe considering invading England. There are Nazi sympathizers at home. The plot seemed like it should be good: spying on Nazis! dastardly plans! psi talents!
And yet this book managed to be boring. I just didn’t really care what happened to any of the people. And there were two groups of spies trying to foil the Nazis and each thought the other was working with the Nazis and maybe that’s realistic and probably that was supposed to increase the drama/tension but I just found it really annoying.
Also it kind of bothers me that the Great War seems to be the first mass trauma event to unleash these latent psi powers. Like, there were a lot of traumatic events before it: the American genocide of the Native Americans. Slavery. The british colonization of India. The Belgian Congo! Like, the author could have tied this in with the racism of the time and had people be like, of course the lower races showed these power, but now they’re appearing in white people! Or it could have been like, something something chlorine gas is necessary to activate these powers but once they’re activated they can spread, so like Joe who was at the front gets the powers but then he goes home to heal and his kid sister gets them and one of the nursing sisters, etc.
Anyway this book seemed like it should have been good but actually it was pretty boring, the end.
The book has a pretty good premise: it’s set in the ’30s and trauma from the Great War unleased psi talents in the population. The Nazis have taken over in Germany and are maybe considering invading England. There are Nazi sympathizers at home. The plot seemed like it should be good: spying on Nazis! dastardly plans! psi talents!
And yet this book managed to be boring. I just didn’t really care what happened to any of the people. And there were two groups of spies trying to foil the Nazis and each thought the other was working with the Nazis and maybe that’s realistic and probably that was supposed to increase the drama/tension but I just found it really annoying.
Also it kind of bothers me that the Great War seems to be the first mass trauma event to unleash these latent psi powers. Like, there were a lot of traumatic events before it: the American genocide of the Native Americans. Slavery. The british colonization of India. The Belgian Congo! Like, the author could have tied this in with the racism of the time and had people be like, of course the lower races showed these power, but now they’re appearing in white people! Or it could have been like, something something chlorine gas is necessary to activate these powers but once they’re activated they can spread, so like Joe who was at the front gets the powers but then he goes home to heal and his kid sister gets them and one of the nursing sisters, etc.
Anyway this book seemed like it should have been good but actually it was pretty boring, the end.