De magische cirkel
Format: paperback
ISBN:
9789024558100 (9024558107)
Publish date: February 2007
Publisher: Luitingh
Pages no: 590
Edition language: Dutch
This book started out great, yet proved to be a big disappointment. I was irked that the book ended up being a Harlequin romance disguised as a "Gnostic Adventure" as I like to call stories like this. Trouble is, the romance works better than the adventure(until the end, which is a letdown), though ...
This is just a mess. There is chunks of infodumping, the main character seems to be related to almost everyone. Hitler is a pivotal character and the history seems not only to be adapted to suit but also warped to suit. There are ways and means of doing this sort of book and this wasn't one of th...
Suffers from what I call "James Michener syndrome", AKA, "look how much research I did for this book!" The historic interludes and pieces of the backstory were interesting, and reminded me how little I actually know about much of world history, but after a while they just got to be tedious, and ult...
This is just a mess. There is chunks of infodumping, the main character seems to be related to almost everyone. Hitler is a pivotal character and the history seems not only to be adapted to suit but also warped to suit.There are ways and means of doing this sort of book and this wasn't one of them...
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