by Jo Walton
Jo Walton’s “Small Change” trilogy is a challenging one to classify. Her previous novels in the series, and , easily fit a number of genres – alternate history, murder mystery, suspense novel thriller – without entirely being defined by any one of them. This book, the final novel in her series, is...
bookshelves: summer-2015, series, paper-read, historical-fiction, alternative-history, wwii, under-1000-ratings, published-2008, one-penny-wonder Recommended to Bettie☯ by: Susanna - Censored by GoodReads Read from June 19 to August 21, 2015 Description: In 1941 the European war ended in the F...
The final instalment in a trilogy, the earlier books of which are Farthing and Ha'penny, I could not put this book down once I reached the half-way mark. It took all my resolution not to peak at the last page. I was kept guessing about what would happen - heart in mouth - until the end. The setting ...
Really loved the entire series. 'Chilling' is probably the best description for these books. At times, I was somewhat annoyed by the similarity of all three female protagonists (probably a feature, not a bug), but still stayed up late to finish the books. Walton's writing is excellent.
In 1941, a small subgroup of the English government negotiated peace with Hitler. Now it's the 1960s. Japan has dropped atomic bombs on the Soviet Union, the US is isolationalist and utterly unconnected to world affairs, and the UK has been shipping undesirables overseas to German concentration ca...
With Farthing, Jo Walton looked at an alternate history where England fell into fascism as a way to stave off the war with Germany. With Ha’penny, she looked at that same England, six years later, and how well the country had adopted that rule, with all their misgivings and concerns. Now, with Hal...
The first two books in this series were so amazing and I was so excited for the end of the trilogy that there was really no way that I wouldn't be let down by this.
This is the last in the Small Change trilogy about an alternate Britain in which fascism was not defeated in WWII. I found this conclusion of the series deeply satisfying. Like the other two books this reads for me as a mystery and thriller in which the excitement and tension come from the working...
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