Review: Poorest of Conroy's Books
Rating: 2 out of 5
Date: 11 27, 2012
I have read almost all of the author's books and thoroughly enjoyed them--until now. This was the poorest written and weakest of all his novels. It almost seemed as if he was distracted while writing it. The premise was good, but the execution was lacking.To illustrate just one of the negative points, one of the antagonist groups was the Canadian version of the Nazi stormtroopers, called the Canadian Legion. Unfortunately for him and Canadian readers, there is a real Canadian Legion, which is the counterpart of our American Legion. If I was a Canadian military veteran who belonged to the real Canadian Legion, I would be highly upset. Mr. Conroy should have taken the time to learn that there already was a Legion and should have steered away from the name.Mr. Conroy needs to research his historical novels better before writing about a country he obviously knows nothing about.