Especially the time period that comes towards the end of the book. I know a lot, not to brag, about this time period and yet when I read novels that are this detailed I feel like I still have a lot to learn.
I’ll stop talking before I spoil half the fun! me) gets very excited of which turn the story is going to take. my brain) works on this piece of information, and when it clicks you (aka. Sometimes as a reader you just pick up the name of a familiar event sort of in the background of the story, your brain (aka.
He expertly weaves the greatest events of this time period together. I almost forget that I’m reading a novel and are not witnessing something in real life. Needless to say, there is a lot of stuff happening here and I think Follett weaves it all together so neatly.
Again the historical backdrop is nothing less than amazing and so full of details that my inner history geek is having a field day with them all! The historical period this book takes place in is the years of 1933 to 1949. The previous characters are still very much involved in their own way, very happy about that, but as the world moves forward the younger generation steps up and the older down. I think this is a very natural progression for the story. We’re now mainly seeing the world from the perspective of the children born to our characters in Fall of Giants. In Winter of the World, we’re taken straight back to our favourite characters from the previous book although we’ve moved a generation down. Daisy Peshkov, a driven American social climber, cares only for popularity and the fast set, until the war transforms her life, not just once but twice, while her cousin Volodya carves out a position in Soviet intelligence that will affect not only this war-but the war to come. English student Lloyd Williams discovers in the crucible of the Spanish Civil War that he must fight Communism just as hard as Fascism. American brothers Woody and Chuck Dewar, each with a secret, take separate paths to momentous events, one in Washington, the other in the bloody jungles of the Pacific. Love made them heroes.Ĭarla von Ulrich, born of German and English parents, finds her life engulfed by the Nazi tide until she commits a deed of great courage and heartbreak. I’m a bit angry about certain things but that is more related to my feelings about characters than the author’s writing. I’ve finished the second book in this AMAZING series and I’m still just as much in love with it as I was when I finished the first book.
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