Reviews for The Iron Veil

The average rating for The Iron Veil based on 2 reviews is 3.5 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2021-02-09 00:00:00 Gabriel Colon Pillars of Gold. . . altogether a mystery to me. I pegged it as one, and read it as one. Until the end whereupon all is revealed. Argh. Then it felt more like a Miss Read fizzle. (and I like Miss Read books.) I was rather miffed at the end. To calm myself I tried to figure out why the title of the book is what it is. Have just read William Blake's Selections from 'Jerusalem' to the Jews. . . .and no wisdom has descended upon me. Enough time devoted here. Reader beware. You are being tricked. But you are probably clever enough to figure that out, unlike this rube. 2 stars. So there!

Review # 2 was written on 2021-01-24 00:00:00 Thomas G Jr Stevenson Funny and witty, and a biting commentary on the plight of the modern family. Ellis's books are never without beauty, though, and I found this particularly beautiful: "...suddenly it occurred to Scarlet that really she was already religious, as anyone who had borne a child must surely be: not in the conventional sense but rather as a passenger on a train would expect someone to be at the controls. The responsibility for bearing human beings was too great for a human being to bear: to bring a child into the world was a terrible thing to do unless you could be sure that there was someone at the end to take it out with at least as much love and care as you had brought it in with." Ellis herself gave birth to 7 children, one of whom died 2 days after birth, and another who died in his late teens. She indeed believed that Someone was at the controls, and this belief is always at least implicitly the foundation on which her novels are built.