Written by Michael Ondaatje⭐ ⭐
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This month's Book Club choice is Michael Ondaatje's Warlight, and I managed to get a copy from the library using the Libby app.
I read Warlight during the #20BooksOfSummer20 Reading Challenge hosted by Cathy @746books.com.
I read Warlight during the #20BooksOfSummer20 Reading Challenge hosted by Cathy @746books.com.
The blurb:
WarlightAn elegiac novel set in post-WW2 London about memory, family secrets and lies, from the internationally acclaimed author of The English Patient
It is 1945, and London is still reeling from the Blitz. 14-year-old Nathaniel and his sister, Rachel, are apparently abandoned by their parents, left in the care of an enigmatic figure named The Moth.
They suspect he might be a criminal, and grow both more convinced and less concerned as they get to know his eccentric crew of friends: men and women all who seem determined to protect Rachel and Nathaniel.
But are they really what and who they claim to be?
A dozen years later, Nathaniel journeys through recollection, reality and imagination to uncover all he didn’t know or understand in that time, to piece together a story that feels something like the truth.
Historical Mystery
Thriller, Suspense
Suspense
My thoughts:
I found Warlight tedious. Part One dragged. I did not understand where the plot was going as nothing happened. I nearly gave up on it, except that, at the end of Part One, I was intrigued by Rose's unexpected return and the rescue of her children. Indeed, Rose's wartime exploits are more interesting than the narrator Nathaniel's own story.
Having reached Part Two, I assumed we'd get down to the real story in the following chapters, but we didn't.
I did manage to finish it, and the threads are all tied up, but it wasn't the fast-paced thriller I'd been hoping for.
Not for me.
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