I wish I could say that Ken Follett does not disappoint with Circle of Days, but it simply is not his best work. To be fair, we have come to expect much of Follett. He is one of my favorite authors, and I am glad to have read Circle, but it does not compare with many of his great novels. When I finished the book, I had to ask whether it was about an ancient culture that created Stonehenge or a clever commentary on the nature of humans and our modern world.
The delightful part of the book was Follett’s explanation of how and why Stonehenge was created on the “Great Plain” by a primitive culture of farmers, herdsmen, flint miners, wood dwellers, and priestesses, who cooperated to make something bigger than themselves after years of drought and intertribal warfare.