Christina Vlasenko Vlasenko itibaren Gochsheim, Almanya
Sometimes preachy, and plotted in a stiff manner (Character A will meet character B, which leads him to meet character C, etc), Jim Powell's The Breaking of Eggs still manages to entertain with a tale of a man who is slowly watching the belief he had in Eastern Europe's communist states fade as he revisits his past. The lack of emotion may be intentional; the character is cool and logical and confronts problems with ideological rigidity (at first). It was a good read, went fairly quickly, drew me in enough.