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A review by shermanberry
V2 by Robert Harris
3.0
I have been a long time fan of Robert Harris. Some of his novels are amongst my all time favourites (e.g. Fatherland, Archangel, Enigma, Imperium etc.).
Despite this, V2 left me a little underwhelmed. The story didn’t ever really grab me and there didn’t seem to be much tension. The storyline alternates between Kay (a young English intelligence officer) who is leaving behind an affair to work towards locating the V2 rocket launch sites in the north of Holland and Willi (an idealistic German rocket engineer who has been dragged into the war effort and has little respect for the Nazi hierarchy after losing the love of his life in an Allied bombing raid).
Learning about this part of WWII and the V2 rockets themselves was fascinating and I applaud the level of research that the author has done (as with all his novels).
The story itself though, ultimately fizzled out without too much of a climax and I was left wondering “oh, is that it”?
Not his best but average for Robert Harris still comfortably outshines most other authors.
Despite this, V2 left me a little underwhelmed. The story didn’t ever really grab me and there didn’t seem to be much tension. The storyline alternates between Kay (a young English intelligence officer) who is leaving behind an affair to work towards locating the V2 rocket launch sites in the north of Holland and Willi (an idealistic German rocket engineer who has been dragged into the war effort and has little respect for the Nazi hierarchy after losing the love of his life in an Allied bombing raid).
Learning about this part of WWII and the V2 rockets themselves was fascinating and I applaud the level of research that the author has done (as with all his novels).
The story itself though, ultimately fizzled out without too much of a climax and I was left wondering “oh, is that it”?
Not his best but average for Robert Harris still comfortably outshines most other authors.