Edge of Eternity - Ken Follett

And here (at last) is my thoughts about the book that took me over 2 month to finish!

Edge of Eternity is the last book in the The century trilogy by Ken Follett. In this last book, you will read about the Berlin Wall, Civil Rights movement and more. If you haven't read any of them, then you should!

The blurb:

As the decisions made in the corridors of power bring the world to the brink of oblivion, five families from across the globe are brought together in an unforgettable tale of passion and conflict during the Cold War.

When Rebecca Hoffmann, a teacher in East Germany, finds herself pursued by the secret police, she discovers that she has been living a lie. Her younger brother, Walli, longs to escape across the Berlin Wall to Britain to become part of the burgeoning music scene.

In the United States, George Jakes, a bright young lawyer in the Kennedy administration, is fierce supporter of the Civil Rights movement - as is the woman he is in love with, Verena, who works for Martin Luther King, Jr. Boarding a Greyhound bus to Washington to protest against segregation, they begin a fateful journey together.

Russian activist, Tania Dworkin, narrowly evades capture for producing an illegal news sheet. Her actions are made all the more perilous as her brother, Dimka, is a rising star in the heart of the Communist Party in the Kremlin.

From the deep south of America to the vast expanses of Siberia, and from the shores of Cuba to the swinging streets of sixties London, Edge of Eternity is a sweeping tale of the fight for individual freedom in a world gripped by the mightiest clash of superpowers anyone has ever known.

My Thoughts:

After using over 2 month to read this book, I'm actually a bit sad to leave this story. I gotten to know many characters and followed the five families through their ups and downs. 3 books and so many people I've read about and gotten to know and now it's over.

The characters in this book are the children of the ones from the last book. I have to admit that I got confused now and then, like the last time, over which belonged to whom. But in the end, I managed to keep up. Anyway. Edge of Eternity was different from the others and people have said that it's not as good as the other two. In my opinion, I actually liked this one as well as the others, but in a different way and was also nice reading about the old characters and what had happened to them. It was also sad to read about their death after "knowing" them since the first book.

In this book you get to feel what it was like to live through the Civil Rights movement, going through different presidents and the Berlin Wall where one of the families children in East Germany escapes over to West Germany for a better life. The things the characters went through for their countries and all the dangers they got themselves into to make things possible and right. Some of it was heartbreaking other triumphant. And I felt with every single one of the people and I did have tears in my eyes more than once. Even at the end of this book! I smiled, got annoyed, scared for their life, sad... just a lot of emotion from the beginning to the end. And that's all I have to say about that! *Forrest Gump voice*

I did learn some things from this trilogy. Though, most of it is fiction, there's real historical things in there that actually happened and, to be honest, I feel like I've learned more about the history of reading this trilogy than in history class!

5/5