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Summary: Too long for what it has to offer.
Review: 400 to 500 pages is ideal for a Griffin book. This one, at over 700 is way too long. With a strong penchant for character bakgrounds and development, the pacing of this story suffers. After a while I began to say, enough already, get on with it. But alas, it was not to be. The anti-climactic conclusion was insufficient solace for seeing it to the end.
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Summary: Interesting. Ok but not as good as other WEB books.
Review: An interesting view of history in novel form. The story is not as spell binding as other WEB G books but still had the ability to hold my interest from cover to cover. Enough historical "facts" to keep the interest up in what would otherwise be a delay in finding out what has befallin the Marines in the South Pacific. I still recommend this book. However if it the first WEB G book you are going to read start with the first of the Brotherhood books or the first of the Corps books to fall compleatly under the WEB G spell.
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Summary: A large, messy but fun WWII espionage thriller
Review: Blood and Honor is, like most of W.E.B. Griffin's novels, a complex story with numerous characters and enough specific detail to firmly ground the story in a particular time and place. The time is 1943 and the place is Buenos Aires, Argentina where certain Nazis hope to secret a hoard of stolen wealth that will support them if Germany loses the war. Pitted against them are members of the American OSS including the lead character who is American on his father's side and Argentinan on his mother's. Caught in the middel of the Nazis and American spys are the local security police who are contending, among other things, with a brewing plot to depose the president and put a general in charge of the government. This plot is widely enough known so that both the Germans and the Americans have a vested interest in seeing that a general favorable to themselves is selected. Besides this, there is a personal revenge element, romance and sex and a huge cast of interesting good guys and bad guys. So, big plot, big book.It took me a while to get into this story because it takes Griffin so long to set up all the pieces. There are really several stories all going on at once that sometimes intersect and sometimes are independent. Once in the thick of things, however, it moves swiftly through its various twists and turns, all leading to a pretty satisfactory conclusion. It's not totally satisfactory because it leaves enough loose ends to allow for a sequel, and the reader would rather have them wrapped up and not have to wait. Still, this is a very entertaining book and I recommend it to any who like a good OSS vs Nazi story set in an unusual locale.
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Summary: Predictable, yet enjoyable
Review: Having read every book W.E.B. Griffin has written(including books published under assumed names) I feel like I could sometimes write these stories. I enjoy the descriptive nature of his books, except when they appear in several books in a series and you are forced to skip a few lines. Blood and Honor is a very good read. I now can describe every square inch of a Horche Convertable or a bottle of bourbon. W.E.B. Griffin's sense of timing is what makes this book good. I would prefer to see more of the Corps series or even the Men in Blue series, but this is a great intermission
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Summary: More fact with fiction.
Review: I also loved this book. While it was disappointing to see Cletus's father killed off early in the book, it was necessary for the story to develop, because Griffin weaves a fictional story around historical facts. In real life, Ramirez and Peron led the military junta that took over Argentina, so something had to be done to get Colonel Frade out of the way. Again, not only are Griffin's books good, you can learn some history while reading them.
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Summary: More fact with fiction.
Review: I also loved this book. While it was disappointing to see Cletus's father killed off early in the book, it was necessary for the story to develop, because Griffin weaves a fictional story around historical facts. In real life, Ramirez and Peron led the military junta that took over Argentina, so something had to be done to get Colonel Frade out of the way. Again, not only are Griffin's books good, you can learn some history while reading them.
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Summary: Great buildup, but to what?
Review: I enjoyed this book for the first 700 pages tremendously. However, I soon realized that the only way to wrap up all the complex story lines Griffin offered us, was by a disappointing ending. My worst fears were realized when the book came to a screeching halt. The climax was lackluster at best and entire story lines were completely forgotten. I enjoyed the great character development, however, there were at least 1/2 dozen characters that were completely left hanging when the end came. It was almost as if Griffin had a 723 page limit and was ineffective at providing a successful conclusion to all the plots derived. I was extremely disappointed when I put the book down, and question if I should read any other books by Griffin, despite all the critical acclaim he receives.
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Summary: Great buildup, but to what?
Review: I enjoyed this book for the first 700 pages tremendously. However, I soon realized that the only way to wrap up all the complex story lines Griffin offered us, was by a disappointing ending. My worst fears were realized when the book came to a screeching halt. The climax was lackluster at best and entire story lines were completely forgotten. I enjoyed the great character development, however, there were at least 1/2 dozen characters that were completely left hanging when the end came. It was almost as if Griffin had a 723 page limit and was ineffective at providing a successful conclusion to all the plots derived. I was extremely disappointed when I put the book down, and question if I should read any other books by Griffin, despite all the critical acclaim he receives.
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Summary: Good but not up to par
Review: I hope this is a prequal to other better so american books
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Summary: great story line
Review: i like when the author writes like this. the characters are real people and its nice to see others parts of ww2 keep it up
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