Just Finished Night Over Water

I like Ken Follett's works. I like em. I don't love em. My favorite so far has to have been Eye of the Needle. I've read six or seven of his novels, and still that's the best of the bunch. I keep picking up his novels hoping that this will be the one that leaves them all in the dust, and I am continually dismayed. I enjoy the book, but I'm dismayed in the quest for something of his better than Eye of the Needle.

Night Over Water was good. The characters were fun, the plot was mildly engaging and the historical nature of the book, the Pan American Transatlantic flights, was fun to read about. That being said when I finished it I thought, "Ho-hum, what next."

It's never good to think "Ho-hum" after a book. By that same token, I'm pretty sure anyone who reads my books thinks "Ho-hum" afterward. I need to find a way to go from "Ho-hum" to Humdinger (if that's not a lead in to another post I don't know what is).

Liked it. I look forward to the next Ken Follett book and I hope that the next one will finally be "the one."

As a final post script, the Book Review I posted on Eye of the Needle is still, by far, the most viewed item on this blog . . . still not sure why! And although I wondered if the review of Jackdaws would outstrip it, it has not. Funny old world.