The Burning Shore

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Burning Shore (0/1 people found this helpful)

The book was not in very good condition as it said in the Ad, yellow pages and some pages falling out!!!

You actually care about his characters (0/0 people found this helpful)

The Burning Shore was my introduction to Wilbur Smith's work after someone gave it to me many years ago and it's still the best adventure yarn that I have ever read. It's got all the Wilbur Smith hallmarks: well-researched attention to detail in an epic plot enacted by people that he gets you to know and love. It can leave you feeling bereft when Smith kills one of them off and that's a rare skill amongst yarn-spinners but it's what makes him stand out from the rest - you actually care what happens to his characters.

The Burning Shore - great stuff (1/1 people found this helpful)

This is a fast-paced story which contrasts the fierce fight for survival as a pilot in the first world war with the battle to stay alive in the heat of the African desert. Wilbur Smith writes with authority and leaves the reader wanting more.

Thumpingly good (1/1 people found this helpful)

This is the 4th Courtney novel, and we learn of how Michael passed (nearly made blub!!) and the amazing series of events that was to follow. What surprised me most is how different this book was to the previous Courtney books and somehow it seems to be all the better for it.

Best of his earlier works (8/12 people found this helpful)

I was first attracted to Smith not as a writer of novels about Africa, but by his novel 'Birds of Prey' which is a historical sea adventure. I enjoyed that book so bought his two novels set in Ancient Eygpt (River God & Warlock), which were also great. I then bought a couple of books from his two established series, ie Courtney (When the Lion feeds) and Ballantyne (A Falcon Flies). I found these to be rather boring and hard going compared with those I have previously mentioned. This lead me to move on to other authors. However I recently bought 'A Sparrow Falls' and 'The Burning Shore'. These two novels are set at the same time, starting in France in WW1 and ending in post war southern Africa and the main characters from each play small roles in the other. However that is were the similarity ends. 'A Sparrow Falls' is dull and centred on petty rivalry etc which you can see in every day life, while 'The Burning Shore' has all the characteristics that made me love the first few Smith novels I had read. That is adventure along with beautiful description of the exotic world that the novel is set in. The difference in quality of these two novels makes it hard to believe that they are written by the same author. All I can add is buy this book, you will not regret it. I am now going to buy the sequel to this book, and I hope that it will be in the style of this book rather than the two other Courtney novels I have read (Lion and Sparrow).

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