The Armor of Light: A Novel (Kingsbridge, Band 5)
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Gute, unterhaltsame Lektüre, aber nicht sein stärkstes Werk.
I finished this book purely because i really loved the first three Kingsbridge books. Book 3 was already less my cup of tea, but this one … i don’t even know what it was. Book 4/0 was way more interesting. After a few chapters i even went back to The Pillars of the Earth to check if the writing has always been like this. Some of the sentences just seemed so simple? At some points i felt like i was reading a book aimed at beginner reading levels. I don’t mean to sound derogatory or anything, it‘s just not at all what i thought i was used to with Follett‘s writing. But maybe it‘s just been too long and my tastes have changed and the style has always been like this. Although reading back a bit of Pillars i didn’t notice the same thing at all. This part of the series deals with the Industrial and French Revolution and the Napoleon War. We‘re back at Kingsbridge and the city sure has changed a lot. There were a few nods at previous characters that i always really enjoy, but the characters in this book just weren’t drawing me in all that much. I didn’t care for any of them particularly. Everybody was either single or unhappily married (for status or convenience) and there was a lot of cheating and pining going on. It seems everyone got remarried a few times and in the end somehow everyone got what/who they wanted. None of them had a lot of personality or character growth. Suffice to say i was glad when i was done with the book. Nothing really comes close to the first two books of the series, which made me fall in love with Follett‘s way of writing historical fiction rooted in reality. I would have enjoyed it a lot if Follett had somehow connected the Kingsbridge Series with the Century Trilogy by something like mentioning the Fitzgerald family name. Just to throw in a little hint. Maybe there will be another book doing just that? I think there might be enough left for one book to fill in the gap until 1911. my guess is there will be one more part and that one will connect the two series to merge it into one big retelling of European history.
Beschreibung
Beiträge
Gute, unterhaltsame Lektüre, aber nicht sein stärkstes Werk.
I finished this book purely because i really loved the first three Kingsbridge books. Book 3 was already less my cup of tea, but this one … i don’t even know what it was. Book 4/0 was way more interesting. After a few chapters i even went back to The Pillars of the Earth to check if the writing has always been like this. Some of the sentences just seemed so simple? At some points i felt like i was reading a book aimed at beginner reading levels. I don’t mean to sound derogatory or anything, it‘s just not at all what i thought i was used to with Follett‘s writing. But maybe it‘s just been too long and my tastes have changed and the style has always been like this. Although reading back a bit of Pillars i didn’t notice the same thing at all. This part of the series deals with the Industrial and French Revolution and the Napoleon War. We‘re back at Kingsbridge and the city sure has changed a lot. There were a few nods at previous characters that i always really enjoy, but the characters in this book just weren’t drawing me in all that much. I didn’t care for any of them particularly. Everybody was either single or unhappily married (for status or convenience) and there was a lot of cheating and pining going on. It seems everyone got remarried a few times and in the end somehow everyone got what/who they wanted. None of them had a lot of personality or character growth. Suffice to say i was glad when i was done with the book. Nothing really comes close to the first two books of the series, which made me fall in love with Follett‘s way of writing historical fiction rooted in reality. I would have enjoyed it a lot if Follett had somehow connected the Kingsbridge Series with the Century Trilogy by something like mentioning the Fitzgerald family name. Just to throw in a little hint. Maybe there will be another book doing just that? I think there might be enough left for one book to fill in the gap until 1911. my guess is there will be one more part and that one will connect the two series to merge it into one big retelling of European history.