It's A Battlefield

What can I say? There isn't much that I can say without repeating myself in a very tiresome manner, because if I'm honest, I'm not too sure that I fully understood the message or theme of the story.This book was intriguing in all its obscurity, and yet most of the time the obscurity overwhelmed the genius at some points...

The narrative voice of the whole book is from other people's perspective and it got incredibly confusing at times. Each chapter would be written as a different character, but as the chapters were quite long and you therefore got used to the character's "style of writing" and personality, it therefore became incredibly confusing when the chapter ended and the narrative voice suddenly switched. This, understandably, made it difficult to give full attention to the storyline and what was happening at separate points in the story.

The characters themselves were bland and didn't have much to define each of them apart from a few key characteristics to each of them, for example, the Assistant Commissioner of Scotland Yard speaks with a stutter; Conrad Drover is rather cautious and looks up to his brother, the bus driver whose arrest and potential hanging is central to the characters and plotline. The reactions of each of the characters to this particular event is intriguing if you are reading it from an educational point of view, but not if you are reading it as someone who simply wants to look for a little light reading. Next, I shall be reading Jamaica Inn, by Daphne du Maurier.