PositiveThe Washington PostQuinn braids these story lines and characters together in a seamless narrative that builds toward a dramatic showdown ... The love story that emerges between Jordan and Tony is refreshing and straightforward and hints at the social changes in the years to come ... sure to be a hit with fans of commercial World War II fiction. Nina’s and Jordan’s narratives truly sing in this powerful novel about unusual women facing sometimes insurmountable odds with grace, grit, love and tenacity.
Noah Hawley
RaveThe New York Times Book ReviewThe novel suffers a bit under the weight of [its] structure in the beginning. Too many characters are introduced in too few pages, and there’s too much repetition. But it doesn’t take long for Hawley to hit his stride ... Noah Hawley really knows how to keep a reader turning the pages, but there’s more to the novel than suspense. On one hand, Before the Fall is a complex, compulsively readable thrill ride of a novel. On the other, it is an exploration of the human condition, a meditation on the vagaries of human nature, the dark side of celebrity, the nature of art, the power of hope and the danger of an unchecked media. The combination is a potent, gritty thriller that exposes the high cost of news as entertainment and the randomness of fate.
