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Ha'penny by Jo Walton
5.0
From Ali:
All I can say is that I’m enraged that Tor won’t be putting out the third and final book until September. I HAVE TO WAIT UNTIL SEPTEMBER, YOU GUYS!
From Dot:
Both Farthing and Ha’penny were gripping reads and I polished them off in short order. The books look at a what –if scenario – England has signed a separate peace agreement with Hitler and is heading into fascism. Farthing is a murder mystery with this as the backdrop and the main character and her husband (a Jew) are set up to take the fall – the police inspector knows they are innocent but is blackmailed by his boss to say they are guilty. The same compromised inspector is in the second book Ha’penny and it too is a murder mystery with the political climate as a threatening backdrop. I can hardly wait to read Half A Crown!
From Saffron:
I raced through Farthing and was very much looking forward to reading book #2. It was good to see Carmichael back again. When reading it, I kept thinking “how can this possibly end”. Walton beautifully ties up all of the strings and leaves the door even more wide open for great intrigue. I feel this series is like a much less violent V for Vendetta. I can’t wait to read Half a Crown which I just got!
All I can say is that I’m enraged that Tor won’t be putting out the third and final book until September. I HAVE TO WAIT UNTIL SEPTEMBER, YOU GUYS!
From Dot:
Both Farthing and Ha’penny were gripping reads and I polished them off in short order. The books look at a what –if scenario – England has signed a separate peace agreement with Hitler and is heading into fascism. Farthing is a murder mystery with this as the backdrop and the main character and her husband (a Jew) are set up to take the fall – the police inspector knows they are innocent but is blackmailed by his boss to say they are guilty. The same compromised inspector is in the second book Ha’penny and it too is a murder mystery with the political climate as a threatening backdrop. I can hardly wait to read Half A Crown!
From Saffron:
I raced through Farthing and was very much looking forward to reading book #2. It was good to see Carmichael back again. When reading it, I kept thinking “how can this possibly end”. Walton beautifully ties up all of the strings and leaves the door even more wide open for great intrigue. I feel this series is like a much less violent V for Vendetta. I can’t wait to read Half a Crown which I just got!