Michael White

Now today, I just got me 5 new books. Well, three are from the library; Pompeii - Robert Harris ; Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen and Ernest Heminhway - including many stories. I didn't get the two books I actually ment to get though. I walked into the library thinking I wanted to read Secret life of Bees - Sue Monk Kidd and Go ask Alice - anonymus, but that didn't happen. And when I got out of the library, and moved onto a store, I stumbled accross two books by Michael White; Equinox and The Medici Secret. I've read one of he's books before, The Borgia Ring, and absolutely LOVED it!



Now, the thing about Mr. White that makes me love him, is the way he put's his story in more than one setting. You have the history, background of the story, all facts, usually either a person or a family of old ages. And then you have the middlespot, last time something happened, the clues noone else would ever put together. And now, when you are stuck in the middle of it, trying to find out what is going on. Three timezones in what I've read 'till now.

And the way you can read something about the family/person in the book, then go online, google them and find out more, it's pretty cool. For example, I was just starting the Medici Secret, of where the family ofcourse is the Medici's. Very famous, they are from the renaissance, and how the family members died was a cold case until just recently. It was commonly thought that the Medici's murdered eachother, but in 2010 scientists proved this theory wrong. Rather interesting, how much you can get out of 400 years old cold burried bones.

These books of Mr. White are mostly biography's of really famous people, like Isaac Newton, Tolkien and so on, and it's obvious that he is interested in the people of the past, and long gone family's who's names live only in history books. Also, the way he analyses people of the past, from what he know's and how he always make's sure to know what's going on with them today, makes he's books very historically correct and still interesting, fun to read and something out of the ordinary.

 I am normally not a big fan of crime fiction, as these books are, where his caracters has to solve centuries old mystery's mixed in with today's happenings, and their lives. But there is something about the way his books doesn't seem like normal crime fiction, as a lot of it is not fiction but facts and he jumps so in time, instead of you being stuck with just the same happening over and over, trying to find out who does what with no clues or something like that, as it usually is in normal crime fictions. One should almost make up a new genre for his books.

Also, as some may think they are not, jumping so much in time, and with so small details about the many pages of a famous family's history, these books are incredibly easy to read. Now, I being a person who reads a lot, can get through most books pretty easily, but these books have no mix-matched sentences, no odd, out-of-the-ordinary words, and as they mention strange names of strange machines and names on gravestones with no grave and whatever else you may come accross, it will always explain what you may need to know, and a bit more of what you just might want to know. These books are not ment for only the smart people, but while they don't bore them, neither do they confuse us normal people.

Books and Author highly recommended!!

  "Alice"