A review by booksandlemonsquash
The War of the Worlds by H.G. Wells

3.0

I'm wavering between 3 and 4 stars for this, as I did enjoy it but I struggle with Wells' prose style. And his tendency to wander off down unnecessary paths. Like the brother - as they didn't meet up what was the point of that? Did he die? Did he and the women escape? Who knows. I like the concept, even with the outdated and now mildly ridiculous science, and I like that actually humans were struggling and they aren't what caused the alien to die off. In fact that was my favourite bit - every space show ever of humans (and others maybe) going to a new planet has them investigate atmosphere and air quality but not bacteria and this was a nice bit of logic for me!