Finished - 26/02/16
I'm a big fan of Tchaikovsky's novels. Though I sometimes find them a little dry and dense they are
always precise and imaginative with fully fleshed characters you love, or love to hate. However when Guns of the Dawn was published I hesitated; as my pervious posts might suggest I read mostly fantasy. There are plenty of general fiction scattered within my tastes, but I thought this book was too set in warfare for me. In a way I was right. My sole complaint is that I wished for a little more of the 'other' throughout. There are nuggets of it don't get me wrong but I would have liked a touch more.
When I say that's my sole complaint however I mean it wholeheartedly. This book is so rich in character and flows so smoothly I've not been able to put it down. It's a wonderful, enrapturing tale that really made me feel, at one point almost to the point of tears, and laugh and possible give myself styes in both eyes staying up late to finish it. It's on the surface a tale of war and its impact, but more than that it's a family saga, the story of change, courage and compromise and the why people live. I loved every second of it and could not recommend it more.
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