Reviews for Terioki Crossing

The average rating for Terioki Crossing based on 2 reviews is 4.5 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2010-08-21 00:00:00 Janis M. Lardner "For five years, since that expedition to the northern boundary, I've been doing dirty jobs in every stinking pest hole of India and Persia. Now I've been brought here to shore up bridges in the Karelian wilderness, and with convicts for labour. I think, sir, that I deserve to know why." This is a pretty hard book to review, let alone recap the story, but I will say the blurb makes it sound a bit more romancey than it really is. All you need to know is the story begins in Petrograd, 1916 and revolves around attempt(s) to get certain persons safely out of Russia before a date with the firing squad. I won't reveal much details, but the final attempt was quite a nail-biter.

Review # 2 was written on 2012-01-29 00:00:00 Alexis Cornett For the first half of the book I was thinking 4 stars but then around page 200 and on I couldn�t stop reading. And I loved it. The title of this book is a little misleading. It makes you think that they are going to trudge through snow in the wild for pages on end in some kind of tale of survival. Not so. The book follows the lives of three men and two women during the last days of the tsarist Russia and the start of the revolution, in Petrograd (Saint Petersburg) from 1916 to 1918 I think. There is the Countess, arrogant, cold beauty, true to her upbringing and constantly wondering if she can love. The English engineer, hunted by his past; the American merchant; the ambitious Finnish student; and the man who walked to Greece on a peregrination and came back an atheist, at the centre of the new Bolsheviks regime. There are more characters around them who get their own part in something like a big puzzle where lives influence others and old crimes have to be paid for sometime. I love the way the characters cross sometimes without knowing each other and then the author smoothly changes direction to follow the second. I can�t say much without revealing what happens. But I�ll say that every character is very real and alive. And the author manages to explain how the revolution started, the main historical facts, without boring you with data or names, painting the atmosphere of fear and danger that surrounds them all the time. It�s a story of love, or mostly of loneliness for the lack of it. This book shares with Zemindar that they both won the Georgette Heyer Historical Novel Prize and they are both OOP. A real shame on modern publishers.