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[Follett] is a commanding storyteller who has taken on an impossibly large task and accomplished it with passion, intelligence, and skill. Like its predecessors, Edge of Eternity is a solid, rigorously researched work of popular fiction. It's an honest entertainment that brings back vivid, sometimes painful, memories of the not-too-distant past.
— The Washington Post
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Edge of Eternity is as compulsively readable a mighty page-turner as its two predecessors.
— The Seattle Times
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Hugely ambitious, the trilogy serves as a massive history lesson as well as an example of good, old-fashioned storytelling.
— The New York Daily News
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"Follett never forgets he is telling a story. The historical events are the backdrop but the characters are the focal point. Good storytellers know this and Follett is an excellent one.
— The Huffington Post
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"Mesmerizing . . . flowing with spicy, expertly paced melodrama, character-rich exploits, familial histrionics, and international intrigue.
— Publishers Weekly (starred review)
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Worth the wait. . . . Once again, Follett has written pitch-perfect popular fiction that readers will devour.
— Library Journal (starred review)
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A glorious conclusion to a remarkable trilogy that is wonderful, exhilarating reading for all ages. Fine, fine historical fiction.
— Historical Novel Society
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Follett does an outstanding job of interweaving and personalizing complicated narratives set on a multicultural stage.
— Booklist
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Follett . . . knows how to turn in a robust yarn without too much slack . . . a well-written entertainment.
— Kirkus Reviews
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A fascinating, sprawling, epic conclusion to Ken Follett's Century Trilogy.
— The Minneapolis Star Tribune
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This book is truly epic. . . . The reader will probably wish there were a thousand more pages.
— The Huffington Post
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Some of the biggest-picture fiction being written today.
— The Seattle Times
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Follett's real gifts are those of a natural storyteller: swift, cinematic pacing, the ability to juggle multiple narratives coherently, and an eye for the telling detail . . . a consistently compelling portrait of a world in crisis.
— The Washington Post
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Gripping . . . powerful.
— The New York Times
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Masterfully sweeping stories . . . political intrigue, amorous episodes, suspense, and drama. History comes to life.
— The Louisville Courier-Journal
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Follett is so good at plotting a story, even one that takes on such a complex topic as the World War II era. That's what makes Winter of the World so hard to put down. You want to know what happens next.
— The Associated Press
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An entertaining historical soap opera.
— Kirkus Reviews
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"The man tells a story so well. . . . Follett can make things glow with some beautifully written episodes. . . . If you read Volume I, you'll have to read Volume II. And once you read Volume II, you'll be committed to reading Volume III. See you in a couple of years.
— St. Louis Post-Dispatch
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Clips along at a brisk pace. . . . He knows how to keep the pages turning and how to make the reader feel a kinship with the characters' struggles. . . . No matter the ultimate destination, readers can expect to savor the journey—and agonize while waiting for the final book to arrive.
— The Christian Science MonitorPraise for Fall of Giants
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Follett is masterly in conveying so much drama and historical information so vividly . . . grippingly told.
— The New York Times Book Review
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Fall of Giants: Follett at his finest. . . . [a] sweeping epic that will thrill his fans for hours on end.
— The Huffington Post
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Follett conjures the winds of war.
— The Washington Post
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Tantalizing.
— Newsday
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A good read. . . . It’s a book that will suck you in, consume you for days or weeks . . . then let you out the other side both entertained and educated.
— USA Today
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Follett entwines fiction and factual events well. . . . This is a dark novel, motivated by an unsparing view of human nature and a clear-eyed scrutiny of an ideal peace. It is not the least of Follett's feats that the reader finishes this near thousand-page book intrigued and wanting more.
— Chicago Sun-Times
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Follett once again creates a world at once familiar and fantastic. . . . A guiltless pleasure, the book is impossible to put down. . . . Empires fall. Heroes rise. Love conquers. After going through a war with these characters, you're left hoping that Follett gets moving with the next giant installment.
— Time Out
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Grand in scope, scale, and story.
— The Associated Press
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Suspenseful, tightly constructed, sharply characterized, plot-driven.
— The Seattle Times
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“In the ambitious, commanding capstone to his multigenerational Century trilogy,
Follett expertly chronicles the pivotal events of the closing decades
of the twentieth century through the eyes of a vast array of deftly-drawn
characters…Mesmerizing.”
— Publishers Weekly (starred review)
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“The final volume in Follett’s latest trilogy (after Fall of Giants and Winter of the World) is worth the wait…Once again, Follett has written pitch-perfect popular fiction that readers will devour.”
— Library Journal (starred review)
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“Those eagerly awaiting volume three of Follett’s ambitious Century Trilogy will not be disappointed…Follett does an outstanding job of interweaving and personalizing complicated narratives set on a multicultural stage.”
— Booklist
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“Another sprawling,
multigenerational, continent-spanning saga from long-practiced pop-fiction
writer Follett…Follett, while not delivering the edge-of-the-seat tautness of Eye of the Needle, knows how to turn in
a robust yarn without too much slack, even in a book as long as this…Follett
writes of those young hipsters with a fustiness befitting Michener, and indeed
there’s a Michenerian-epic feeling to the whole enterprise, as if The Drifters
had gotten mashed up with John le Carré and Pierre Salinger…He does a good job
of tying disparate story lines together in the end. A well-written
entertainment.”
— Kirkus Reviews