The famed sportsman himself! Heir to an uncounted fortune, and a leader of London society! The local youths idolized "the Nonesuch" the fathers disapproved and the mothers and daughters saw him as the most eligible-and elusive-man in the kingdom.īut one person remained calm. When they learned that Sir Waldo Hawkridge was coming, the village gentry were thrown into a flurry. To top it off, my copy (dated February 2016), while readable, could do with better editing, with spelling and grammar errors every few pages.Ĭolumbus Day will work for many, but it didn't hit the mark for me.At the age of five-and-thirty, Sir Waldo Hawkridge, wealthy, handsome, eligible, illustrious, and known as the nonesuch for his athletic prowess, and when he comes north to inspect his unusual inheritance at Broom hall in the West Riding, his arrival leads to the most entertaining of ramifications. The already-messy story also takes a turn for the worse, venturing through a wild tonal rollercoaster of pew-pew action sequences, space battle pirate hijinks, and frustratingly one-dimensional geopolitical nonsense. Perhaps they are in the sequels, but his abrasive character doesn't entice me to find out. His constant barrage of snark, while certainly successful as comic relief, repeatedly journeys into the unbearable, and despite apparently being a god-like intelligence, his indiscretions are inconsistent and never explained. I was introduced to Columbus Day via Skippy, but what I found was not a highlight of the story, but an inexplicable deus ex machina ( machina ex deis?), with no apparent character other than ‘he's an arsehole until he's not’. Critics rave about Skippy, but I must disagree. Joe Bishop is hiding from technologically-advanced aliens, then he's a Starship Trooper, a several page description of military technologies follows, and then not much happens while Joe does farming and slice-of-lifey things with a side of political intrigue. Columbus Day doesn't quite know what it wants to be.
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