Category: Ken Follett

• Review of “Circle of Days”

  Stonehenge

  Circle of Days is the newest work of historical fiction by Ken Follett and it is brilliant. It tells a story about Stonehenge and its creation through the eyes of the people who built it. Joia is a young woman who becomes a priestess at the monument due to her wish to learn more about…

• Review of “Edge of Eternity”

  Kennedy Assassination, The Civil Rights Movement, The Cold War, The Cuban Missile Crisis, The Iron Curtain

  I was absolutely enthralled with Edge of Eternity, the final book in the Century Trilogy by Ken Follett. It opens in the early 1960’s with George Jakes, son of Greg Peshkov, participating in the Freedom Rides. From there it follows his career working with Bobby Kennedy in the Justice Department. At the same time it…

• Review of “Winter of the World”

  Spanish Civil War, The Century Trilogy, WWII

  We move forward a decade or two with The Winter of the World, book two of the Century Trilogy by Ken Follett. As Stalin consolidates power in Russia and Roosevelt becomes President while Hitler rises to power we meet the next generation of the same families we met in the first book, Fall of Giants.…

• Review of “Fall of Giants”

  The Century Trilogy, The Russian Revolution, WWI

  I absolutely love a good historical fiction epic and I think a found a good one. Fall of Giants is the first book in The Century Trilogy by Ken Follett. He also wrote the Kingsbridge series that I have also talked about previously. This book opens shortly before WWI and covers the events of the…

• Review of “The Evening and The Morning”

  Kingsbridge

  This next book is actually a prequel to a series I’ve already discussed with my previous reviews of A Column Of Fire and The Armor of Light. In between writing these two books the author, Ken Follett, traveled further back and wrote The Evening and The Morning which serves as a prequel to the entire…

• Review of “The Armor of Light”

  Kingsbridge

  I have previously talked about this particular author’s ability to create an incredibly detailed world. Having read another of the books in the Kingsbridge series I can definitively say that Ken Follett continues in the next book. The Armor of Light is the fourth book, not counting the prequel, in the series that are based…

• Review of “A Column of Fire”

  Kingsbridge

  If you ever wanted to read an epic of world-building that is on the same scale as anything by Tolkien than I know the perfect book. A Column of Fire is the third book in the wildly popular Kingsbridge series by celebrated author Ken Follett. It tells the story of Ned Willard and Margery Fitzgerald,…