Review: Excellent series
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 02 27, 2014
"Scarred Horizon" by Jackie Williams is yet another excellent novel in her Scarred series. This book is about the life of Paul, an injured soldier after his return to the Uk from Afghanistan.It explores with great empathy, sensitivity and insight the complex emotional scars and the impact of the acquired disability on an individual.Paul's background is heart breaking and the turn his life has taken is sad. However, the book does not just dwell on war heroics, injustice, pity and misery but in an upbeat turn the novel provides a more upbeat approach and takes our hero to France where he can regain his strength, confidence and his life and find some romance, too.The book is very easy and pleasant to read and, to me at least, the concept of the series is an admirable and important undertaking: to break down taboos and put the injured and disabled into the spotlight as strong and interesting characters and beyond the role of victims. Williams has seen her idea through very successfully.It is prefectly possible to enjoy this book as nothing more than a romantic novel with some deeper aspects, such is the skill of the author of handling sensitive issues gently and competently.