The hunted now becomes the hunter. Review on Rage - Wilbur Smith

This is not a review of the book rage but a review of a phenomenal author Wilbur Smith across all the different books he has written

First, he writes about the most intriguing continent of all – Africa and he moves across the centuries from the times where the great tribes ruled, and the hunters were the hunted to the time when the hunters become the rulers. His depth of human emotion, his capture of life’s unerring twists and turns and fate’s fair unique justice beats the hell out of reading just any other insipid novel.

Be it the way he brings different character to life – he is one author who makes you accept that all good people have some bad and what makes them different is that the bad in them is a unique strength. He portrays the women so differently, captures beauty in features, character, the shape of a neck or back, a posture, an attitude, a mindset, a gesture, a thought, a sexual indication or a plain tilt of a delicate head. He describes life exactly the way it is - harsh, vast, just and simply mind-blowing. He tracks the trails of the fading relationships, he brings to feeling the zeal of people’s causes and the irrationality that precedes or follows it, he grips you in his expertise of the human mind nature and its strange follies. He describes sports, fighting, hunting, and tracking with amazing passion, depth and heart wrenching passion. He can create generation stories and make each of offspring’s like the other but yet so different.

Some of his brilliant plots created –

·How a man saves his best friend from death after cheating

on him with his wife and how the feelings of jealousy,

loyalty, strong bonding with the man and love and lust for

his wife exist in parallel

·How a woman in love with her brother in law fights the

ghost of her sister in obtaining him

·How a pregnant woman desperate to survive her unborn child

walks across an entire continent to renew a life that has

nothing and goes back to own diamond mines

While you read his books, its like you are speeding across the continents caught up with these people, you identify with the man, then the woman, you are the hunted animal fleeing away, then you live the hunter’s intensity - tracking carefully, he makes you feel real and prehistoric, makes you feel evolved and wise. When I finish each book I feel I have traveled the Lost world that I may never experience cos I have missed that era.

So for those of you looking for an author can make you feel like the 100 different people you never knew you were, try Wilbur Smith – as for me, writing this review has my mind spiraling as I have just lived all his books in the last 10 minutes and that can be quite exhausting