Thanks to NetGalley and the Publisher for an e-arc.

I was looking forward to reading this book but after the first chapter or so (I can't tell when a chapter starts on the e-copy), I wasn't feeling it unfortunately. I haven't been enjoying books that have included COVID, and I didn't anticipate how political this book would be, which just isn't my taste.

DNF.

DNF’d at 9%

I wish I could have read more than 9 percent of this book but I just cannot do that. I didn’t liked the writing style and I was so bored while reading this book.
I always say life is too short to read a book you don’t enjoy reading so I stopped reading this.

Thank you to @netgalley and the publisher for an ARC of this book in exchange for my honest review.

🌵 Release Date: April 4, 2023 🌵

I laughed and appreciated the political satire, it's a book that I found hard to review as I loved some parts and was bored by other.
The humour and the satire works and I liked them.
Many thanks to the publisher for this arc, all opinions are mine

This might be considered a thinking persons book. It's a bit of a mix of genres, and might be a bit uneven in places, but I liked it overall. I think it might be for niche audience.

Thanks very much for the free ARC for review!!

Rarely do I comment on writing styles of authors; who am I to condemn their use of adverbs or to criticise the lack of commas, yet Kramer’s style of writing in The Great Man almost immediately put me off. I am a grammarian at heart and have been since my grandmother began instilling the ideology of “Spelling and grammar will save your life” into me from the tender age of six. So when I started reading and realised that there were to be no speech marks in sight, I clutched my pearls and let out a gasp. Surely not! I could not stand to read another page.

Yet I did. And it was a book the likes of which I have never read.

The political humour at the beginning of the book is the main factor that kept me going; without meaning to, I found myself filling in the name for ‘The Great Man’ and understanding that the ‘plague’ was a reference to COVID19. The way it used vague descriptions to create a world almost parallel to our own was fantastic and really drew me in, despite the bleakness of this version.

In all honesty, Death of the Great Man was one of the hardest books I’ve ever read. The words used and the way it was written made it very difficult for me to always take in and I felt stupid reading, since I knew it shouldn’t be as difficult as it was to read. A lot of the concepts, specifically the political and philosophical parts, were completely foreign to me and made it much more complicated for me to comprehend.

I wish to make it clear, however, that this book, although not my usual cup of tea, was brilliant. It gave the reader the ability to see into the story from a more objective view, not to feel terribly for the characters, but to understand their circumstances and to sympathise but not to empathise and it wasn’t a bad way of representing it.

Thank you very much to Permuted Press for sending me this ARC.