Redemption [Paperback]

Leon Uris (Author)

Product Details

• Paperback
• Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers (1995)
• ASIN: B000QM2ZGE
• Average Customer Review: 2.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (46 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #9,484,111 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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24 of 26 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Trinity and Redemption review, December 28, 2005

By 

Judith Schonhoff "Judy" (Somerville, MA USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Redemption: A Novel (Hardcover)

I just read Trinity, then the sequel, Redemption. I plan on submitting this review for both novels.

Trinity is an 800+ page saga about Ireland in the late 1800s early 1900s. It took me a good 100+ pages to get hooked on the book, but once hooked, I raced to finish it. I loved the description of Ireland, the religious conflicts, and the incredible characters. This book is great, read it now.

Redemption was also an 800+ page novel, however, not as gripping as Trinity. The first 300+ pages covered plot that had been described in Trinity. For those readers who read Trinity years ago, this may be a bonus. For someone who had finished Trinity a day prior, I wasn't interested. The book gets a bit more exciting with the description of the war being fought which eventually leads back to Ireland. The book then, unfortunately, wimpers out with a quick, gift packaged ending. I am not sorry I read this book, because it brought a bit more closure on the Irish saga for me...however, Trinity is the more impressive novel.

9 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Don't believe the hype, December 24, 1998

By A Customer

This review is from: Redemption (Mass Market Paperback)

As a Uris fan and Trinity lover, I ran out to buy Redemption when it was released. What a letdown. It was a Trinity review with some Clancy-like battles that lasted forever. Never thought Uris would put out such nonsense to make a buck.

10 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Can't believe I spent money on this book., August 22, 2001

By 

Mary Anne Kain - See all my reviews

This review is from: Redemption (Mass Market Paperback)

Written like an incredibly long, high school book report, a mere rehashing of the important events of "Trinity". The book added no more dimension to and seemed bereft of any sympathy towards the characters - I found the characterizations to be flat and uninteresting. The dialogue was incredible and sophomoric - I mean, let's be frank - people getting together to plan the throwing off of the chains of 700 years of oppression aren't going to sit around a table at secret meetings, under cover of darkness, yammering things like, "And forever, nothing of beauty has ever escaped his eye. No leaf, no sound, no drop of rain, no sweet word, no scent. He finds beauty in thunderheads and raging seas, and never a woman has he seen or touched did he not find beauty in. Along with his ravenous craving for knowledge and his fury against injustice, this man has gathered in beauty more fully than any human being I know...." Puh-leeeze. Give me a break - no one talks like this. I am sorely disappointed in this poor attempt at a sequel, but I'll finish it because I'm hoping it gets better (or at least more realistic). I'm glad I read "Trinity" first, because I never would have after reading this.