Reviews for The sound of trumpets

The average rating for The sound of trumpets based on 2 reviews is 4.5 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2016-12-29 00:00:00 John Connell I'm a big fan of Mortimer's writing. In Trumpets, he pokes both sides of the aisle with his witty pen. I read the two previous books in this Rapstone series, but you don't have to. The book can stand alone. All his characters go through life like the steel balls in a pinball machine, getting battered about by the flippers until they fall to their doom, except the crafty Titmus who has put a quarter in the machine and plays the game until it tilts. Mortimer has no qualms about rewarding evil if you don't count sleeping in a single bed alone as punishment.

Review # 2 was written on 2009-03-19 00:00:00 Justin Kirk The death of John Clifford Mortimer has sent me searching through his bibliography for books (and plays) I've missed or would like to read again. I'd loved Paradise Postponed and Titmuss Regained but I'd somehow been unaware of a third book in the Rapstone Chronicles, The Sound of Trumpets. Although the book is predictably good, what happens was quite unexpected, at least to me. I was prepared for a good sneer at New Labour, but Mortimer's kindly world-view made me pity, then love, a hypocrite. It did not, however, change my view of Tony Blair.