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Review Date: 8/15/2011
Helpful Score: 2
Amongst my favorite novels are those featuring a protagonist who finds himself in a foreign land and lands in trouble not of his own making.
Fidali's Way fits this mold.
Combine this with a thrilling, multi-layered plot,three-dimensional characters, a realistic setting and great writing and you've got your hands on a winner.
Fidali's Way fits this mold.
Combine this with a thrilling, multi-layered plot,three-dimensional characters, a realistic setting and great writing and you've got your hands on a winner.
Review Date: 6/22/2022
I really enjoy the author's earlier novels. This one, however, was too slow. Plus the protagonist did not appeal to me. I discarded the book after reading about 30%.
Review Date: 7/15/2016
Imagine being uprooted from your safe, pleasant, orderly environment and being placed in hell. And wanting to survive at any cost.
A well-imagined, dystopian page-turner.
A well-imagined, dystopian page-turner.
Review Date: 10/31/2013
Fabulous sequel to Speaks the Nightbird. I love historical fiction but do not enjoy historical mysteries or historical crime novels. In this case, I make an exception. Could not put this book down! Nor the others in the Mathew Corbett series. This novel has it all: living, breathing characters plus an accurate historical setting. And, a great plot.
Review Date: 10/31/2013
I suppose you could classify this as a "crime" novel. But, I have a category of my own: "When bad things happen to good people." This is one of my favorite types of tales. and, Scott Smith has written as fine a story as you'd want to read if you like novels that fit into this category.
Review Date: 9/6/2009
The noir crime novel goes sci fi. Whether you're a fan of Philip K. Dick or Raymond Chandler this tale will engross you. It has it all: setting, character, humor, mystery, suspense, plot. And, most important, it's creative. The author's ideas blew me away. Without giving too much away, the story is set in an enormous grounded MegaMall, New Richmond, Virginia. The protagonist has fled to his home ground with 7 clones he is trying to protect. Immediately, a gang of thugs grab them and he has to figure out who has marked them for death. A mindblowing portrait of a future which might come to pass plus a read that blows the opposition away.
Review Date: 1/10/2015
Helpful Score: 1
Learned a good bit about the international [i.e. European] financial market and how economics effect the political scene. Historical fiction is my favorite genre and in another author's hands, this tale could have been drudgery given the subject matter. But, Iain Pears took a creative approach to storytelling and utilized 3 POVs. For this alone I applaud him because the tale was complex enough to allow it.
Review Date: 2/17/2021
Couldn't get into the novel.
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