PDF The Marching Season Daniel Silva 9780375500893 Books

Product details Hardcover 418 pages Publisher Random House (March 1999) Language German ISBN-10 0375500898 ISBN-13 978-0375500893 ASIN B001228975

The Marching Season Daniel Silva 9780375500893 Books Reviews

• I was so excited to find the Osborne book two was available after devouring book one. Book one was finished in an evening, book two took me four days. Just couldn’t get into it, read for 20 minutes then on to another activity. Usually I read a book in its entirety in one session. I just couldn’t get “into” this one for some reason. The writing is good, premise is good but the story just felt forced...a hurry up & get to the publishers kind. There is a lack of fleshing out the new additions, continuity is a problem as well. Maybe a better editor could have fixed the flaws. I was disappointed, not sure I’d buy book three of this series. Will probably go to the library and read for an hour to decide.
• This second book by Daniel Silva in the Michael Osbourne series is just as fast paced as the first. Themed around the Northern Ireland peace accord and the bloody enmity between the Protestants and the Catholics in the region, Daniel Silva demonstrates the deep research he does for each of his books.
  Having read all the Gabriel Allon books, the character of Ari Shamron portrayed here left me a little uncomfortable! You will meet a number of other familiar characters here too.
• I wanted to avoid the clichés of the more popular set of Silva's book (with Gabriel the restorer of art plus some kind of spy) but there is, apparently, no way to avoid the super-cliché of a secret global organization named 'Society'.
  
  In the bell curve of readers there is apparently enough of fairly smart but very busy people who just want to relax with all kind of conspiracies. There are many authors like Silva, some of them make the conspiracies or at least machinations believable (many Californian authors do that, my favorite is Kellerman). Obviously, Silva is considered one of them but not by me.
  
  Still, this may not be my last Silva's book, at this time I have plenty of time to read them on my very cheap basic or on one of my computers just before I fall asleep.
  
  Nothing to hate in this book but nothing to like either.
• A superb series yet somewhat disappointing only in that we know there’s so much more to come as Daniel Silva brings Gabriel Allon to life. Maybe it’s posted somewhere, but I wonder why the author went no further with the Osbourne series or character while other characters from the series live on in the Allon series. (Poor Adrian - he always seems so put upon and miserable, at least to me that is.) Enjoy!
• I enjoyed book 2 as much as Book 1. The characters were well developed and the plot continued at a fast and interesting pace. The villain, October became more human and almost like able at the end.The ending was a bit contrived and disappointing. However I would recommend both books to those that like murder mysteries.
• This is clearly a subject matter than Silva researched, rather than feels intimately or knows personally. It's a decent read, but he's imposed some highly fictional notions onto some actual characters, and it felt like he'd never actually spoken to or met them, namely Gerry Adams; I have. Silva's narrative patches for Adams do not ring true, and I suspect Silva has an anglophilic streak that has colored his storytelling. It's a trait that serves him well in his Gabriel Allon series, but doesn't do the story service in "The Marching Season". Otherwise, he does a fairly good job of portraying an aspect of the conflict in the north of Ireland. So, if you're not concerned with impeccable accuracy about Ireland, this is not a waste of time.
• I gave the first book in this series 5 stars. As the story progressed in this book, I took a leap of faith in the ending chapters; however, i did not land on solid ground. Silva crossed the believable ground and I could not follow him there. He is a remarkable, readable author and I've read all his books and praised them all. The ending in this two-book series failed me and I'm sorry for that.
• I almost felt obligated to see this book through to the end but, I have to say it was mediocre. It was broad, with too many characters to sort through. It did not seem focused until the last 25% of the book when things came together.
  Mr. Silva has definitely improved over the years since he wrote this story - thank goodness!