American War by Omar El Akkad My rating: 5 of 5 stars I was lent this by a friend who warned me it was a powerful novel. He wasn’t wrong. The characters, so rarely for this genre, are wonderfully sketched and believable. The plot is disorienting at times, and it can be hard to keep […]
Not an easy read, and that’s before you take into account ‘our’ 2021 contains plenty of question marks about our species’ future. Tightly written and worth every page turn. So often such novels offer concept over delivery, this does both.
The premise. This one’s all about the premise. It’s brilliant. It’s thought-provoking. It’s fairly unique. An ‘after the fall’ scenario in which England (and apparently the rest of the world, too) has reset itself only to get as far as the Middle Ages. The church once again wields power and the peasants are ever so […]
Jack B. Calhoun 