A review by rheren
War in Heaven by Charles Williams

3.0

I read this as part of a book club. It has some clever phrases that I very much enjoyed and some interesting parts, but as a story it felt offputting somehow. The characters weren't cardboard or annoying, they were fairly well-realized and authentic feeling, but I did have trouble following their motivations: the archdeacon seemed terribly passive almost everywhere except the one time when he suddenly steals something and runs like mad. The duke seems in control and immovable except suddenly when he stumbles into something totally unprepared and then just falls to pieces. Mr. Persimmons similarly seemed totally in control and dedicated, until suddenly he's turning himself in to the police simply because someone told him to. Parts of the story just struck me as odd. It was okay, but not my favorite.