This was a five star book for me, right up until the end. I'll only talk about the ending in very general terms to avoid spoilers, but I'm still not sure whether I liked the ending or not. On one level, I can see why Mary Gentle wrote it that way. It fit with the structure of the operas within th...
I give up. I can't go on. I couldn't even make it to page one hundred. I slogged through the first 85 pages, which should have been a stand-alone novella (had it been a novella, it would have been a vast improvement, and I may have sped through it had I not been daunted and confused by the presen...
Very rarely do I completely pan any book. Author, Mary Gentle left me no choice, however, in this particular case. I didn't feel it was bad enough to get a 1 star rating, however, I am someone who has also spent a considerable amount of time researching the historical figures behind the famous D...
Hi guys...happy new year!!!Ash: A Secret History by Mary GentleI feel I have to recommend this book with table pounding intensity to all of you. It's long, epic length...in fact the American version was spread out over 4 books, I read the British version which was one long, almost 1200 page brick...
