Rated: 5 Stars
Format: Audio Book
I just finished listening to Fall of Giants. It certainly held my attention from Start to finish. But as I said before, I like these long historical rambles. By the end I had realized it had less in common to Delderfield and was written very much in the style of Herman Woulk's Winds of War.
If I had bought a hardcover addition instead of an audio version I think I would have given this story 4 Stars. But John Lee who reads the story did such a wonderful job with the accents, especially the Welsh that he made the characters so real for me it fully deserves five stars.
One of the things that made this story stand out was that Mr. Follett seamlessly wove in so many interconnected points of view that it added to the drama of what was happening to each character. I can hardly wait for the sequel to find out what happened to these people. I hope the talented John Lee reads it, and I fervently hope Lloyd wins the Victoria Cross in WWII and stuffs it up Fitz's nose.
Before I purchased this book I checked the ratings on amazon and was very surprised to see it only had a two star rating.
I was so curious about so many one star reviews I started reading them. I did't read all of them but did read the first fourty. Those were all complaining about the Kindle pricing. Apparently there is some sort of organized protest going on trying to force amazon to reduce the price. Amazon is going to have to figure out a way to weed out the inappropriate use of the review system before it is destroy it. Those 99 one star "reviews" are little more than spam IMO.
Link to Fall of Giants on Amazon
