Book Review: How Sleep the Brave

How Sleep the Brave is a novel by J. H. Hunter. The setting is late 17th-century Scotland, and the Catholics are severely oppressing the Presbyterians. Duncan Fenwick sets out to help relieve the oppression and fight for freedom in the land by taking on the role of the mysterious Black Avenger.

This is just my kind of book. It has action, suspense, romance, godly wisdom, a satisfactory end, great dialogue, an abundance of well-crafted moments that made me smile for their sheer well-craftedness…okay, that may be a writer thing. There are a couple of slow parts, but they’re short. The book has a nice pace for the most part. It keeps you hooked but everything doesn’t fly by so quickly that you can’t enjoy it. There are some technical writing errors, but normal people probably won’t notice them and they didn’t bother me too much. The rest of the book makes up for them. The dialogue is written in a Scottish accent that some people may find annoying, but I like that and wouldn’t change it. I started to be quite annoyed by the fact that the author skips a few years near the beginning, but it turned out to be fine. Some people might find Duncan’s “invincibility” to be unbelievable, but that didn’t bother me, either.

I highly recommend it. I want to buy it now (I checked it out from the library).

Have an amazing rest of your life!
- WM