Review: One of the best releases of the year for me
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 09 5, 2012
I RECEIVED EBOOK AS FREE REVIEWING COPY, BUT I THEN PURCHASED THE PAPERBACK ON MY OWNI fell in love with this writer's style since I have read his first book "Heart of the jungle" and was so eager to read this book. Do not get me wrong, I thoroughly enjoyed it and as the title of my review states I consider it one of my favourite new releases of this year.I am however thoroughly at loss as to how to characterize this book. I suppose "epic love story" would be the best description, but I am not sure I can call it a romance. Nick and Tait are both wonderful characters. They are people with passions and ambitions to change the world, to achieve something in their chosen profession, who just happen to have feelings for each other and I really liked that.Now why am I hesitating to call it a romance? Every time they are on page together, they have great chemistry and I really wanted them to be together. The problem (not for the book, just why I am not sure if I can call it a romance) is that they do spend *very* little time together on page. I am not even sure how much, 5%? 10%? Oh it all made sense to me and I was really impressed how while they were living their lives, involved in their careers, with women, other men, in some important painful events of the 20 century, how their love always burned in their hearts and I could always feel it. But again, most challenges life threw at them, they were meeting separately. Some they met together, but as I said, not sure if it is enough for this book to be called romance.Just beware of that and you may enjoy it as much as I did.I really appreciated that there are several women characters in this book, and there was one I really wanted to shake silly, but at the end, no, I can not call her evil, I call her a deeply flawed human being (aren't we all?), who made plenty of wrong choices and recognised that. But she also had good qualities, she had ability for remorse and her own dreams and ambitions, which I was very impressed with. I also liked how while she was making wrong choices, the leads recognise that their own choices played into it as well. I am just very happy what this writer did with this character.Highly recommended