Reviews for When Eagles Call

The average rating for When Eagles Call based on 2 reviews is 4 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2015-01-17 00:00:00 Adam Pesce I read this book in the mid 1970s while at university, but its central tenets have stayed with me ever since. The concept that an audience or reader can know more about the true nature of events transpiring in a story than the characters themselves is quite a simple description of the device. It can be used with telling effect by the writer of said story is a powerful and oft-repeated mechanism of enhancing the impact of all forms of literature. And especially, as the title of the work indicates, those written to be performed on a stage. My favourite anecdote from the work arose from a production of Othello in which the presentation of Iago's machinations against the title character were so well developed that supposedly one distraught member of the audience rose to his feet and yelled out: 'You stupid black bastard, can't you see he's fooling you?!' Sedgewick's rather dry observation on this incident was that it obviously represented dramatic irony working too well! Highly recommended.

Review # 2 was written on 2017-09-01 00:00:00 Patrick Bailey *Spoilers* I found this book while exploring our new library and I liked that it took place in a local area. There were a few unresolved aspects of the story such as what happened to the aunt and what the local guide's connection was to the time travelling. However, that might come up in subsequent books and I enjoyed reading it.