tailgater wrote:How'd you like it?
loved the last quarter...the first 3/4 would have also been fine if only I didn't already have a lifetime of knowledge of the realities of the concentration camps. I felt he held back in defining an important building block of "The Novel"...the setting.
In fact, I felt that he left out the hideous details (despite spending the first 300 pages around it) because the subhuman treatment and ethnic cleansing wasn't really helpful as stepping stones toward the real story being told...I guess he assumed we all know of the atrocities.
I am of the opinion that this could have been a 200 pager. But if one had read some stuff MACS linked a few months ago, and then read this book, when put together readers would have been put through an emotional wringer more so than this accomplished by itself.
Real good, not great. My heart did start pounding when the author finally allowed the antagonist to stumble into the plan and the story started to become a race to the conclusion.
I appreciated the way the ending linked to the beginning, as I had forgotten about the story teller!