Imagine traveling in a plane and it getting hijacked and the hijackers only demand is that you need to read the Clifton chronicles!!… Then and only then should you attempt to read it!!… Unless of course you have read the earlier six books and waiting for a closure then u are a prisoner with a life sentence and no appeal!!…
The master of short stories (his book To cut a long story short was the only one which I have liked though I have read them all…) should have ended this charade long back instead of dragging it like the screenplay of a never ending soap….. It felt like he was cutting (or building!!) a short story long!!…
His only other work worth mentioning would have been the prisoner’s diary which was tolerable cause it was true…..
If this was a lame attempt to include world events in the storyline then Ken Follet would be rolling and laughing!!…
The novel should have been titled lady Virginia chronicles (though she’s Neither a lady nor a… you get my drift!!??)…. And in spite of her venomous nature she was not given a closure or maybe Jeff forgot her during his episodic dementia!! (Spoiler alert!!… Though it really doesn’t matter… Believe me!!)
Jeff of late has also become extremely obsessed with death….. With the amount of deaths happening you would think it’s an abridged script of game of thrones!!….
In summary read it to get the closure but don’t expect more since so many questions have been left unanswered…
The light at the end of the tunnel was very fickle indeed……
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