And No Wings by Nigel Jay Robson
And No Wings is the first novel by broadcaster. Nigel Jay Robson and what an epic it is! It centres on what would happen if God and the Angel Gabriel became involved in earth’s many conflicts and environmental disasters; would divine intervention help, or would the inherent greediness of man still destroy things? This book is in no way religious and portrays God in a rather grumpy ‘human’ manner – all seeing but rather disillusioned with His ‘job’. The book is well written, humorous and resonates. Whilst reading it, in real life we’ve had volcanic ash clouds, oil slicks and various other environmental happenings that have made me think of this book and how it’s not as much a work of science fiction as we’d like to think.
My major criticism is that the book is too long. At 695 pages, if you took it as a holiday read, you would need to be going for a very long cruise to be able to fit it all in! There are too many characters and it switches from viewpoints and characters without any transition, which makes it confusing. In my opinion, this novel is like two novels put together. One is about a group of people trying to tackle global warming and people’s greediness; the other is a story about politics and terrorism. They do kind of blend into each other but for me would be better as two volumes in one book.
I challenge anyone not to read this book and start visualising and casting the film of it. There are several fantastic characters who could have been developed further and several who didn’t really serve the story much and could have been edited out. I would certainly read another book by Nigel Jay Robson, just hope that the next one is a bit shorter!
*****
Buy the book at http://www.amazon.co.uk/No-Wings-Nigel-Jay-Robson/dp/0956183301/ref=cm_cr_pr_pb_t
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