My recommendation would be to read the other two books, "The Avalanche" and "Lone Wolf" but skip this one completely.1 After the death of Joshua, the people of Israel ( A)inquired of the Lord, ( B)“Who shall go up first for us against the Canaanites, to fight against them?” 2 The Lord said, “Judah shall go up behold, I have given the land into his hand.” 3 And Judah said to Simeon his brother, “Come up with me into the territory allotted to me, that we may fight against the Canaanites.
Charles decided to write in slang, and using cryptic terms that I have no idea what he means, either as an Englishman, or as someone who has lived in the USA for many years. I am English, and grew up in England, and I understand that 2000AD is a British publication, but the story itself is set in the USA.
I can't imagine why this was included as part of the trilogy, because it is vastly different than the previous two. At the end of the story and looking back, it wasn't even the kind of story that appeals to me at all. By the middle of the book, I would give up, and when it didn't make sense I would skip it as it was a painful and frustrating process to attempt to understand.įor me, I just couldn't connect with the way Charles Eskew decided to tell this story. Many times I read half a chapter before realizing the person whose mind I thought I was in, was wrong, and I would have to go back and reread it to properly understand.Įven when I did understand the perspective, the sentence structure and attempts to through metaphors around made the majority of sentences confusing, so I would reread sections two or three times. The frequent first person perspective, using "I" can work, but not when the story leaves the reader behind. The bigger issue is that the authors writing style and flow was impossible for me to connect to.
The problems weren't just the constant swearing and how it seems the author was pushing political views, or adding racial commentary that wasn't needed. While the other two kept a great pace and flowed well, this story was the opposite and was difficult to keep reading through to the end. When the Light Lay Still is the third story in The Genesis of the World of Judge Dredd trilogy.
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