Corroboree

by graham-masterton

Corroboree - Masterton, Graham - Star Books

Genres: Fiction, Historical Fiction

512 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1984

Reviews

[Diana · Rating 1 out of 5]

This book had a promising start, but then I quickly changed my mind. I thought I would enjoy reading about this adventure across wild Australia, but the many gory and implausible details and the utterly annoying characters made this quite an unpleasant experience.

[Mark Sutcliffe · Rating 5 out of 5]

Fantastic read

[Adam Wilson · Rating 4 out of 5]

Corroboree by Graham Masterton is another of his historical sagas. Like the only other one of these I have read, Solitaire, the books is a bit long and drawn out but that tends to be a characteristic of most historical fiction. Masterton's research definitely comes through frequently but it never feels forced. The plot itself is one that most readers would love. As the book description says, it is a novel about an epic journey to try to reach what lies in the middle of the Australian continent ant. I found the conclusion of the journey to be rather anticlimactic but this was the book's only let-down. As always, Masterton unflinchingly describes both sex and violence with perhaps a little too much detail at times but that is obviously his style and it doesn't get to me much anymore after reading so much of his work. Historical fiction fans should get a kick out of this one but be warned that the journey doesn't actually get under way until over a third of the book has been read. Don't get the wrong idea; the beginning of the book is action-packed and is also appropriate for setting all that is to come, but impatient readers may not feel that the effort is worth the eventual pay-off.

[Sumati Arora · Rating 2 out of 5]

I was recommended this book by a very close friend, so I put whatever I was reading at that time on hold and immediately started reading this on kindle. But then that's the problem with recommendations, you don't always know that what the other person finds engrossing might actually be boring to you.

When I started the book, I was enjoying the characters and the interwoven historical details of early Australia as well. But then after the exploration and the search began, the book started feeling very long and stretched way beyond required. I did enjoy the way the characters are described, especially the ones from higher class who would not let the "blacks" get a minute of peace or respect and affection. So overall I love Graham's style of writing as far as characters and the plot is concerned but I would probably not pick any other of his history based works again.

[Sandeep Deb · Rating 5 out of 5]

5* is largely influence by nostalgic reasons.

[Lorielle Cortes · Rating 3 out of 5]

A very very strange book. Good in sights to early interactions with Indigenous australian