Paperback, 928 pages
French language
Published May 12, 2017 by ROBERT LAFFONT.
A Column of Fire is a 2017 novel by British author Ken Follett, first published on 12 September 2017. It is the third book in the Kingsbridge Series, and serves as a sequel to 1989's The Pillars of the Earth and 2007's World Without End.
I enjoyed this story all entwined with real historical characters. It had good momentum with one thing leading to another with quite a few exciting climaxes.
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Over and all I'm sad that the story of Kingsbridge is over, it was a wonderful story with many characters to remember.
But I have to say the ending was a bit cheap, Sylvie died, just that Follet can make the same ending as in every book in this trilogy. He killed her in a cheap fight with Rollo, so Ned and Margery can marry. I know that in all three books, the story is basically the same, and his books live with the whole world. That does not change that it was a bit annoying to know after the first few pages, how the story will end.
Never the less, a good trilogy and I will definitely recommend the trilogy to friends and other.
Because of the story issue I mentioned above, I'm not sure yet if I will give the prequel a try.
I thought that this book was pretty good. I only give it three stars because I felt that the attention to detail, the character development, and the political intrigues were not so well developed. I would have liked to have more of a historical context instead of just introducing both historical and fictional characters with no real development or explanation. It seemed kind of hit or miss with some of them not understanding or being given a chapter or section to understand the why and how of it. It just seems to me that we could have gotten more detail on the characters and their involvement in historic activities. I was actually kind of glad to finish the book because I don't like stopping in the middle but felt like there was a rush to get it all accounted for as I got to about the 80% stage. If you …
I thought that this book was pretty good. I only give it three stars because I felt that the attention to detail, the character development, and the political intrigues were not so well developed. I would have liked to have more of a historical context instead of just introducing both historical and fictional characters with no real development or explanation. It seemed kind of hit or miss with some of them not understanding or being given a chapter or section to understand the why and how of it. It just seems to me that we could have gotten more detail on the characters and their involvement in historic activities. I was actually kind of glad to finish the book because I don't like stopping in the middle but felt like there was a rush to get it all accounted for as I got to about the 80% stage. If you like the previous books, this will not disappoint. I just like more in the way of context and development or the explaining of the why's and what's.
