Review: Substance Over Style
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 06 6, 2014
Morcan's newest adventure edition is WORLD ODYSSEY. As in his previous books, his 19th century adventurers find themselves in distant lands with an abundance of enemies and a paucity of supporters. This makes for hugely entertaining reading as they struggle to safety in exotic locales. Whether you are most interested in the shipwrecked Nathan, the missionary Susannah, or Cockney Jack Halliday, the non-stop twists of plot, the barrage of sights and sounds, and the endless imagination of Morcan as the director of the action, you will certainly be entertained. As in the past book (FIJI), I felt that Morcan fell short in describing his female character's psyche, but gave her a winning story nevertheless. His somewhat pedestrian prose can put a reader on edge, but the stories carry enough complications to win over even a picky reader such as I.