Claudia's Reviews > Fallen Dragon

I don’t think I will ever cease to be amazed by how Hamilton succeeds in constructing his universes. It’s like he’s living there and paints what he sees in front of his eyes - the myriad details, the colors, the smells – all so real that you cannot but be transposed in that particular world. I should be used to this by now, having read most of his epic operas, but I’m not; and it’s an awesome feeling having the same thrill when starting one of his stories.

Compared to the others, this one has a register change: instead of focusing mostly on the environment and technologies, here we have as main focus the story of Lawrence Newton.

It is a story about love, friendship, growing up, making mistakes and having second chances.

A bit too long (some parts of Newton’s adolescence are too stretched out and would have been much better had they been shorter) but the events and the ending worth the journey.