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danir 's review for:
Regeneration
by Pat Barker
Not yet sure how many stars to give as on the one hand I was really pleased to see that I had brought part 2 on holiday with me and started it right after finishing this one, but on the other hand when my wife asked me how the book ended I had already forgotten. To be fair, I have just had an operation and that may have affected my focus, but it was a bit strange to admit that I’d forgotten the ending within an hour.
On the other hand, it wasn’t exactly plot driven in the first place. I wasn’t reading it to see what happened (spoiler alert, several main characters are household names in the U.K. so I knew in broad terms what was going to happen to them). I’m going to give it four stars because it was very engaging (it had to be something engaging as I was partly reading to distract myself from the post op soreness!) but not five because it somehow felt a bit too much like End of Part 1. Which it is, but if you’re going to write a trilogy I think each part should also stand up as a book in its own right. Otherwise you should just publish it in one volume, in my view.
On the other hand, it wasn’t exactly plot driven in the first place. I wasn’t reading it to see what happened (spoiler alert, several main characters are household names in the U.K. so I knew in broad terms what was going to happen to them). I’m going to give it four stars because it was very engaging (it had to be something engaging as I was partly reading to distract myself from the post op soreness!) but not five because it somehow felt a bit too much like End of Part 1. Which it is, but if you’re going to write a trilogy I think each part should also stand up as a book in its own right. Otherwise you should just publish it in one volume, in my view.