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A review by bboerner
The Lincoln Letter by William Martin
4.0
I received a free advance copy of this book through Goodreads First Reads.
This was my first William Martin book, and by default, my first Peter Fallon story. For someone coming new to the series, I realized there would be certain things that wouldn't make sense to me. However, there were relatively few moments where I felt like an "outsider" and didn't get what was going on between the characters. It was good to be able to jump into the series and follow along with the action.
This is probably something formulaic for Martin, but it was interesting to get a book with historical "flashbacks" alternating with the current narrative. How it was done was new to me and seemed to work pretty well. Both story lines advanced concurrently pretty well and it was neat to "know" something that each storyline's characters don't. Despite this knowledge, there were still enough surprises to keep me from getting bored.
My one major complaint was that it was tough to keep track of all the different players and their machinations in both timelines. I don't know if Martin normally tries to pull together so many different people and groups, but it became difficult to keep straight the motives and actions of characters at times.
Having recently visited Washington, D.C. with my family, I appreciated the attention to detail about the locations and places visited by both sets of characters.
Overall, this was an entertaining read and it managed to tie together some historical and modern politics and show how Lincoln can still have an impact on us today.
This was my first William Martin book, and by default, my first Peter Fallon story. For someone coming new to the series, I realized there would be certain things that wouldn't make sense to me. However, there were relatively few moments where I felt like an "outsider" and didn't get what was going on between the characters. It was good to be able to jump into the series and follow along with the action.
This is probably something formulaic for Martin, but it was interesting to get a book with historical "flashbacks" alternating with the current narrative. How it was done was new to me and seemed to work pretty well. Both story lines advanced concurrently pretty well and it was neat to "know" something that each storyline's characters don't. Despite this knowledge, there were still enough surprises to keep me from getting bored.
My one major complaint was that it was tough to keep track of all the different players and their machinations in both timelines. I don't know if Martin normally tries to pull together so many different people and groups, but it became difficult to keep straight the motives and actions of characters at times.
Having recently visited Washington, D.C. with my family, I appreciated the attention to detail about the locations and places visited by both sets of characters.
Overall, this was an entertaining read and it managed to tie together some historical and modern politics and show how Lincoln can still have an impact on us today.