Customer Reviews

The Burning Shore

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As most of Wilbur Smith's novels, Burning Shore is located in Africa - this time in Southwestern Africa (now Namibia). The novel is placed in the long link of novels about the South Arfican Courtneys. I normaly feel that Smith's novels are written for guys, but Bruning Shore is the only one I also have recommended to my wife. She loved it - it's a mixture of the adventurous and heroic - the exciting and lovable. READ IT - man or woman.

This is a truly gripping novel, NO!, I take that back, it's an adventure, once you start reading it's no longer just a book, it is real, as though you were experiancing it. When Centaine is scampering up a tree avoiding the ferocious jaws of the terrifying lion below, you are scampering up the tree with her, giving her a push and saying get up there you must save the baby!!! You cry with her when the tribesmen are so brutely slaughtered. You cheer with her when baby Michael is born healthy and strong. You reminisce with her of long past times with her father before the war. And so on and so forth, but to cut to the chase, it's a good read give it a go mate.

Centaine de Thiry meets Michael Courtney, and then her amazing journey begins. The tragedies she endures develop her strengths and she blooms. Wilbur Smith spins the story of her life without any dull moments. There are quite a few surprises along the way. It's a difficult book to put down and it leaves you longing for the story to continue...which it does, thankfully, in the Power of the Sword.

Wilbur Smith can really tell a story. Burning Shore transports the reader to a different time and place, and does it so well that you never want to leave the world and characters that Smith creates. Engrossing, powerful, beautifully written.

This continuing Courtney epic runs slightly parallel with A Sparrow Falls, at about the same time period. The main character, Centaine de la Thiry, makes an excellent mother for a Courtney as she is incredibly tough but without being harsh. This is an incredible tale of death and survival under the most savage and primitive conditions; a must read.

I'm only 18, but i've read River God and The Seventh Scroll, and i absolutely fell in love with them! But the Burning Shore just didn't do it for me... Centaine De Thiry is forced to live through the torchers of lonlinees, hunger, thirst and survival as she finds herself stranded in the namibian desert. She fights not only for her life, but for the life that her dead husband, Michael Courtney, has left inside her womb.

You will fall in love with Centaine... But Wilbur Smith decided to give the ending a dull and unhappy twist.

How many times have we all asked ourself that? I am a huge collector of Wilbur Smith's novels and have read almost all of them. I am so intertwined in the life of the Courtney's that sometimes I catch myself not being able to realize that I am reading it not living it. I will describe this book like all the others, I can see his words. Everyone should read Wilbur Smith, he is captivating.

This book really demonstrates the prowess of Mr. Wilbur Smith about the political situation of South Africa. He has practically immersed my interest deeply with the way he focuses with its characters as well as the events that are sorrounding them. Really a thumbs up piece of book!

the courtneys of africa is a must read....The only reason I gave this one 3 stars instead of 4 was that it took too long to get into the book. When you put the courtney saga together, it is one of the all time great epics....try to read them in order....

I read all of Mr. Smith's books I can find. He is very
popular in Europe & Canada & has only in the past 5 yrs or so
been in the bookstores here. I would say that 95% of his
writings have been top quality reading for adventure, love stories & African history. And that's in each book.