by Iain Pears
This is a tough one to review (even in brief) and choose how many stars. The beginning was great and I was very quickly pulled into the characters and the mystery. Then the style changed and it turned almost into an epistolary form with the murdered victim from the beginning mystery going on and on...
This book was so dry to me that I literally had to force myself to finish it and ended up having to renew it at the library. That is never a good sign for me or the book!
Review from Clare Clark though I enjoyed the first section and didn't think it dragged at all plus didn't find the ending 'unconvincing and unnecessary'.... http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2009/may/09/iain-pears-stones-fall
I probably learned something about finance and munitions, though those subjects always make my eyes glaze over. I didn't like it as much as I thought I would, from what I'd heard about it. Elizabeth (John Stone's widow) was a great character, but she was the only one who really came to life for me. ...
I read 270 pages. Did you ever sit in a warm bath, on a reasonably warm June evening? Maybe you draw the bath, thinking--well, it'd be nice to relax. Lay around, sink in, let your mind casually wander. But the water can't be too hot, right, so you turn it toward a cooler temp. Then you climb in...
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