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Gathering Night (2000)

by Margaret Elphinstone(Favorite Author)

3.44 of 5 Votes: 4

ISBN

1552788806 (ISBN13: 9781552788806)

languge

English

genre

Historical Fiction

review 1: This book has some really nice historical input from the 400BC Scottish era (apparently, from the afterword), which basically reminds us all how useless we are now in not being able to hunt for ourselves etc. However, and I am saddened to say, it was quite boring at times. The narrative used was that of a camp fire storytelling, but it was quite annoying at stages, with characters sounding almost childlike and detached. Eventually points within the story hit at some excitement at around 70% of the book! but this was far to late for me to thoroughly enjoy. This gave a good 20% to the book! before dragging the ending out again.Ultimately I did start to like the characters in this book and connected with their feelings, but it was just all a bit far to late in the day. I woul... moredn't recommend, unless you are really interested in how to hunt certain animals or make a good winter camp.
review 2: Elphinstone's "The Sea Road" is on my extra special GR shelf "worth six stars".Seeing as I loved that book so much and seeing as I had never read any pre-historical fiction I was sure this was the book for me. Turns out unfortunately, hunter-gatherers are not my cup of tea. It's not the book, it's me. I do recommend this for anyone interested in reading fiction about this period of time, I bet you will give it 4 or 5 stars! less

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