Review of The Fox
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Review of The Fox
[Following is a volunteer review of "The Fox" by M. N. J. Butler.]
Around the kings dining table secrets are being traded. That night the king dinned sober. Which was a rare occasion. It was in this seating that Leo was commissioned to write about the war. A Spartan war that only a few had knowledge of the true unfolding. Among them was the narrator and so The Fox by M. N. J. Butler is of the narration of this war.
Leotychides of Sparta wrote of a tale of how Lakedaimon led the Hellenes in peace and war. He also wrote of how Corinth had begged Sparta to withdraw from the war yet in the beginning of everything, during the conference of Peloponnesian allies, the Corinthians had persuaded Sparta to vote for the war. Leo records this to be unusual because Sparta had never been a fan of war, although they had the finest army.
Leotychide’s father had led an army to the Dekleia before Leo was born. He had commanded the whole of Athenian plains, Thebes and the long Island of Euboia. His father had been an Eurypontial King. The relationship between his parents was strange and when Leo asked his mother if she hated him, his mother responded by saying that they had been engaged in a forced marriage, and they had never really liked each other.
Leo also recalled of a story of a young boy who had stolen a fox. To hide his, he put the fox under his coat and close to his skin. The fox kept on digging and digging into his skin until he bled to death. This story inspired the title of the book because it was metaphorically referring to fallen Sparta and its rulers.
I liked the authors' narration style in the book. I think the author did a good job in ensuring that the story of Sparta was told by their own voice through the character of Leo. I also liked how the author used humor, flashbacks and plot twists to make the book interesting. There was also a lot of dialogue and conversation in the book which helped break the monotony of the book.
The only problem I encountered while reading the book was that it was very long. I almost gave up reading it to the end. The characters were also very many and some did not even last a paragraph in the book. Another issue was that despite the characters being so many they had very similar names this added to the confusion of the book. I did not spot any grammatical errors or spelling mistakes in the book and I think it was professionally edited.
I give this book a 2 out of 4 because I enjoyed reading it. I however opine that the author should have divided the book into two different books or more such that it became a series because it is quite a long book and the author has never written another book beside this one. I however liked the storyline of the book and I would recommend it to lovers of historical books and historical thrillers.
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The Fox
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Around the kings dining table secrets are being traded. That night the king dinned sober. Which was a rare occasion. It was in this seating that Leo was commissioned to write about the war. A Spartan war that only a few had knowledge of the true unfolding. Among them was the narrator and so The Fox by M. N. J. Butler is of the narration of this war.
Leotychides of Sparta wrote of a tale of how Lakedaimon led the Hellenes in peace and war. He also wrote of how Corinth had begged Sparta to withdraw from the war yet in the beginning of everything, during the conference of Peloponnesian allies, the Corinthians had persuaded Sparta to vote for the war. Leo records this to be unusual because Sparta had never been a fan of war, although they had the finest army.
Leotychide’s father had led an army to the Dekleia before Leo was born. He had commanded the whole of Athenian plains, Thebes and the long Island of Euboia. His father had been an Eurypontial King. The relationship between his parents was strange and when Leo asked his mother if she hated him, his mother responded by saying that they had been engaged in a forced marriage, and they had never really liked each other.
Leo also recalled of a story of a young boy who had stolen a fox. To hide his, he put the fox under his coat and close to his skin. The fox kept on digging and digging into his skin until he bled to death. This story inspired the title of the book because it was metaphorically referring to fallen Sparta and its rulers.
I liked the authors' narration style in the book. I think the author did a good job in ensuring that the story of Sparta was told by their own voice through the character of Leo. I also liked how the author used humor, flashbacks and plot twists to make the book interesting. There was also a lot of dialogue and conversation in the book which helped break the monotony of the book.
The only problem I encountered while reading the book was that it was very long. I almost gave up reading it to the end. The characters were also very many and some did not even last a paragraph in the book. Another issue was that despite the characters being so many they had very similar names this added to the confusion of the book. I did not spot any grammatical errors or spelling mistakes in the book and I think it was professionally edited.
I give this book a 2 out of 4 because I enjoyed reading it. I however opine that the author should have divided the book into two different books or more such that it became a series because it is quite a long book and the author has never written another book beside this one. I however liked the storyline of the book and I would recommend it to lovers of historical books and historical thrillers.
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The Fox
View: on Bookshelves | on Amazon
