Search - The Night Watch

Waters is always hit or miss for me. I really enjoyed "Fingersmith", can't even recall "Affinity" and with "The Night Watch" I couldn't finish it. I read half the book and realized I was forcing myself to continue so I stopped. It was too bleak, and way to slow for my tastes. I suppose I was just impatient with the unraveling of the story and frankly, none of the characters interested me enough to care about why they ended up where they did.

what a waste of time. the book is written in reverse chronology. my guess is that it was written this way to hide the fact that the story did not have a coherent flow. this might have been better as a series of short stories. no - i take that back.

If you read Water's book Fingersmith - this is different yet similar. She does have a way of drawing you in to a period - in this case London, WWII - this is a backward chronology, which is different. Story focuses on 3 women and a young man, friends, lovers, and intersections.

After having read The Fingersmith, by the same author (which I LOVED), I had high hopes for this one. Gave it 119 pages of my time, but it never caught my interest the way Fingersmith did. Never finished this one, and I didn't find it appealing at all (though perhaps it may have gotten more interesting towards the middle and end?). A dissapointment.

Something different, but very enjoyable. I plowed through this book. Give it a try.

Great if you like Historical fiction - an interesting perspective on WW and the effects on women...a little graphic in parts but generally a great story!