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Originally Posted by Stumped
My beloved has just bought me Wilbur Smith's Assegai which I have out to one side until I finish reading Simon Scarrow's Fire & Sword (the third book in his Bonaparte/Wellington quartet) which are extremely informative if a little hard going at times. My trouble is, if I start a book, I just have to stick with it - so Wilbur will have to wait a little longer.
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Have finished
Assegai, and although a rollicking good read, I considered it to have rather a disppointing ending for a Wilbur Smith novel. Smith's yarns usually finish with a good old blood and guts finale, but the ending of
Assegai, for me, was rather a damp squib.