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I'm old enough to remember Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis when they first appeared on television. They stole their first movie supporting Marie Wilson. I can still remember me and my friends laughing over Jerry's antics crushing oranges in the picture. I always wondered why they broke up when they were so famous and doing so well and Lewis does a great job of explaining the mystery. My brother recommended this book to me and I wasn't disappointed. This was a very enjoyable book. Kudo's to Jerry Lewis for his honest and very interesting book.

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Threshold Engines of Ascendancy Book 1 edition by Gregory Figg Mystery Thriller Suspense eBooks Reviews

The book title lured me in. The cover is excellent. The UK reviews were very good. I must disclose that I almost gave up after the first few chapters BUT the book is very intelligently written and it spoke to my passion for British history. I felt like I was reading several books at once. The time periods were the same but the stories are not related...yet. I keep reading. I've read multiple books at the same time before. I'm midway through and still don't pick up the trail but then there is a dog, an old dog. So I keep on. I love dogs. It IS intelligently written and very descriptive of the social thought during the period. So it would be a shame to put it down just because I have not yet figured out 'who done it' (or even what 'it' is). And the characters are quite interesting - some shallow, some deep, some questionable alliances, some questionable enemies. I'm curiously not bored at all with politics of religion here. Keep reading. Still clueless I hate to admit. I can't see the end, I can't get comfortable. But I've invested hours of my life I will never get back. And then, not looking at the percentage complete marker, I'm shocked when it ends with a cliffhanger. Yes, I know it's book #1. I'm torn between throwing my at the wall and searching down the author for book #2. Mr. Figg, please get on it so I can revise my rating. Hopefully up.

Update 4/8/2016 Several weeks later and I'm still thinking about this book! A firm 4.5 now. The mystery is killing me!

Update 3-14-2017. Seriously? Still wondering what this thing is! That makes it a 5 for me. Where's book 2?
Set in the late 13th century, a fairly dark time for France and England, Mr. Figg has given us this tale of mystery, intrigue, and spies and treasure.

France and England are both fighting with each other and among themselves. It is a time of great upheaval in both countries. Right from the beginning of the book, we know these characters are looking for something and when a discovery is made, it is in the area north of Wales. When Brac leads a mysterious frenchwoman to the quarry to show her the mysterious silver box he has found in the stone he thinks he really doesn't need any further uncertainties in his life. But, in case it was valuable, he’d rather the French had it than the English. He’d rather the French had it than the Church; how he saw it, the French could fight the English, but the Church could not. That was one of my favorite snippets in the book! What a practical man!

And from there it's a suspenseful and harrowing ride all over both countries. There are spies, Templars, Kings and everyone in between fighting for the discovery. Now there is even more unrest and secrecy. Is anyone who they say they are? Can anyone be trusted? Can the Church or the Government be trusted? It is definitely a heart pounding read! And even after I saw Part 1, I was left with a cliffhanger. Which isn't a bad thing. I would read the next one!

There are a lot of questions and quite a few characters involved. The story as a story, is a good one. It may need some editing, but there wasn't anything I couldn't figure out with the information that was given.
I love medieval English history, and this story has the potential to be as good as some written by the likes of Rosemary Jarman or Edith Pargeter. But the way the story is told is maddening to the reader. The author has a habit of interrupting the action by long internal soliloquies that have little relevance to the immediate scene. A glaring example is the count galloping into a battle; the reader is kept waiting to find out what happens while the count ruminates interminably over unrelated matters. The same thing happens with long descriptive passages. As I read, I kept thinking of an pithy saying by Elmore Leonard "Leave out the boring parts." Then the book ends (but evidently not the story) by introducing an entirely new character in a new setting, seemingly unrelated to what has gone before. In other words it doesn't end at all. Granted there is to be a sequel, but even a book in a series should come to some sort of end.

The author has some other irritating habits. He settles descriptive designations for his principal characters, then uses these to the exclusion of pronouns or proper names, e.g., "the little Frenchwoman," "The blond Cornish woman," "the English knight." He also uses modern nicknames, such as "El" for Elinor, which is jarring. And some words are used wrong or misspelled "wretch" (a miserable person) used repeatedly instead of the verb "retch" (to try to vomit). And there are numerous missing or extra words and mistakes in grammar or syntax.

Mr Figg, you have the bones of a good story here. Before you publish any more of it, please get a competent editor.
I'm old enough to remember Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis when they first appeared on television. They stole their first movie supporting Marie Wilson. I can still remember me and my friends laughing over Jerry's antics crushing oranges in the picture. I always wondered why they broke up when they were so famous and doing so well and Lewis does a great job of explaining the mystery. My brother recommended this book to me and I wasn't disappointed. This was a very enjoyable book. Kudo's to Jerry Lewis for his honest and very interesting book.

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