Fall of Giants - Ken Follett

This is the first book in the The Century trilogy by Ken Follett. This is also the first book I've read by him. This trilogy is set through the early 1900's right before WWI and the second book that I'm currently reading is set to few years after the WWI ended and right before (and during) WWII. (Not sure about the last book yet since I'm not finish with the second one.)


The Blurb:
Five families are brought together through the world-shaking dramas of the First World War, the Russian Revolution and the struggle for votes for women.

It is 1911, and the coronation day of King George V. Thirteen-year-old Billy Williams begins his first day at work in a coal mine.

The Williams family is connected by romance and enmity to the Fitzherberts, aristocratic coal-mine owners. Lady Maud Fitzherbert falls in love with Walter von Ulrich, a spy at the German Embassy in London. Their destiny is entangled with that of Gus Dewar, ambitious young aide to U.S President Woodrow Wilson. Two orphaned Russian brothers soon become involved, but Grigori and Lev Peshkov's plan to emigrate to America falls foul of war, conscription and revolution.

Fall of Giants combines richly developed historical detail with fast-moving action and powerful emotion to deliver this absorbing narrative.

My Thoughts:
For someone who had enough of the whole WWI and WWII history in class I really enjoyed this book! My dad recommended this for me and after I downloaded the preview to my iPad to check it out, I got hooked from the first page. He had already told me a little about this book so I knew there were five different families and they all got connected somehow. I wasn't really sure if I would like this book since it's about the war and it's not something I would have bought right away if it wasn't for him. But here I am..already reading the second book and can barely put it down so yeah..

Anyways, this book is really good and it's an amazing story about five families in different countries who somehow get connected one way or another. I have smiled and also had tears in my eyes few times during this book and am so glad that my dad convinced me to read this. I regret nothing!

5/5