Reviews

The Dark Clouds Shining by David Downing

gmamartha's review against another edition

4.0

Russia to India. I liked the plot and character interactions better in this book.

leftyjonesq's review

tense medium-paced

4.5

davidjeri60's review

adventurous dark informative fast-paced

4.5

usbsticky's review against another edition

2.0

I didn't really like it. I liked the start of the book but I didn't like the alternating point of views. I invested in the McColl POV and then found out that I had to invest in the Russian POV as well. I found the Russian POV vastly less interesting and with a lot more characters which were flat. In fact, alternating POV's is a pet peeve of mine. You get into an interesting plot line then suddenly you have to read something else. In this case, because I didn't like the other POV it was torture to have to slog through something I didn't want to read and when I got back into the McColl POV, I started not to like it as well. After a while I found myself having to forcing myself to read though it instead of wanting to read it. The writing didn't draw me along and I kept having to re-read parts to make sense. I just didn't click with the book and didn't care about the characters.

I got this book as a free ARC.