I have mixed feelings after spending a week with this novel, as the writing itself wasn't that bad, yet I had figured out the ending very quickly into the book. The first clue that the author drops as to the real murderer is not at all subtle, and it served to disinterest me in much of what followed. The novel takes place in 1959 as Stephen Cade is being tried for the death of his father, a past professor and celebrated veteran of WWII. In private, however, his father was distant and kept the company of one of his past comrades, Ritter. Together, they killed a French family during the war in the pursuit of St. Peter's Cross, an artifact that is really on the fringe of this novel. Again, the writing is good, the characters of sufficient depth, and altogether this is a good novel - except for the one "hint" that gave away the ending much, much too early.
Sunday, July 4, 2010
The Inheritance - Simon Tolkien
I have mixed feelings after spending a week with this novel, as the writing itself wasn't that bad, yet I had figured out the ending very quickly into the book. The first clue that the author drops as to the real murderer is not at all subtle, and it served to disinterest me in much of what followed. The novel takes place in 1959 as Stephen Cade is being tried for the death of his father, a past professor and celebrated veteran of WWII. In private, however, his father was distant and kept the company of one of his past comrades, Ritter. Together, they killed a French family during the war in the pursuit of St. Peter's Cross, an artifact that is really on the fringe of this novel. Again, the writing is good, the characters of sufficient depth, and altogether this is a good novel - except for the one "hint" that gave away the ending much, much too early.
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