Thanks for your comment, Kris. I’m glad you and your son enjoyed Ghost Flight. As I said in the review above, it looks like Burning Angels is a sequel, so maybe you’ll read it and maybe you’ll enjoy it too. At least you’ll be able to hop over the catch-up sections.

Fact in fiction. In any fiction book I read, I do expect an anchoring of fact. I suspect most other readers do too, even you. Do an Internet search on “famous factual mistakes in fiction” to find a plethora of articles listing the sort of mistakes people have found and reacted to.

Whether the mistakes one spots make a difference to one’s enjoyment of the story, of course, will be personal. But an author ought at least to try to avoid making mistakes that might surprise a reader. When someone writes a work of fiction, they set out to get their readers to suspend their disbelief – their knowledge that the story is a fiction – for the duration of their read. To do that the author needs to work to keep up the pretence. One part of the job is to make the fiction true within its own parameters. Within the parameters Bear Grylls sets for Burning Angel, I think he fails to do this. I identify several of those failures in the review. If the writer didn’t spot them during his various manuscript rewrites, they ought to have been caught by the book’s editor. That they weren’t suggest to me that the book has been sloppily produced.

Tack för din kommentar Kim. Jag är glad du tyckte det var roligt. Jag lovar att jag försökte hittar nånting att tycker om i boken, men tyvärr… Jag jobba på med min egen skrivning. Jag hoppas jag har något att dela så småningom.
Kram

Yes, Eva amazingly it can! We went there in January 2015. Three years ago – three and a half now.

My information is that Bear Grylls is much more attractive as a performer and an adventurer. His children’s books are apparently about kids having adventures and learning survival skills – which he certainly knows about – so they are likely to be of better quality. I kind of think his adult thrillers are just him trying to cash in on his name.

Have a nice summer, you too!