Gordon Zuckerman

This book was quite confusing and difficult to get into. It jumps between the early 1900’s and the time directly post World War 2. First of all, it needs a good editor as there were quite a few grammatical errors.
Secondly, the story skips a lot. For instance, one of the main characters goes home to an Israeli kibbutz, get involved with a shoot out while guarding the kibbutz, then flys to Iran a few days later. Really?? Next thing you know, this woman is an education specialist setting up advanced studies for the children in settlements being developed in the Iranian desert. No hint given prior to the announcement that she even knows anything about educational systems. I just found the whole story pretty far fetched and poorly written. Stopped reading half way through.… (mere)

I thought it was the first book of a trilogy but soon realized it was the first book of a second trilogy. I’m not sure if I missed a lot not reading the first trilogy, but I definitely felt like I was behind the 8 ball from the start. My other major issue was with the dialogue and inner monologues, no one I know talks or thinks like that, it’s just not the way normal people converse. I realized near the end of the book that the tenses didn’t match, i.e. talking about the past using present tense verbs, but I’m not sure if that was the issue through the whole book, it was just clunky. Needless to say, I won’t be picking up the first trilogy or the rest of the second.… (mere)