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Reviewed by Lex Allen for Readers' Favorite
I thought this would be a fascinating read and it was. I thought that it must be extremely difficult to tell a story about prehistoric people of whom we have very little knowledge upon which to base dialogue, habits, beliefs, etc. We have theories based upon archaeological findings and evidence, but we don’t really know. Mr. Sutton has done an excellent job of telling the story of two clans who are near opposites of each other. One clan, that of early modern man, is fair-skinned and very much like the people you see on the street every day; while the other is Neanderthal — dark complexion, more ape-like and perhaps, the models for whom the authors of fairy tales called “trolls.”
Troll is based upon an archaeological find that could prove that the two clans, generally thought to be thousands of years apart in evolution or geographical location, may in fact have existed simultaneously in the same location. The story goes on to describe what might have happened had these two very different cultures met; a meeting which would explain the strange archaeological discovery thousands of years later. The clan characters are all very well developed, and with only a few exceptions, Mr. Sutton uses modern dialogue to provide communication ability to each of the clans; an ability for which we have no examples or real knowledge about their language, if any.
While I enjoyed reading Troll, I would have enjoyed the story more had Mr. Sutton included more detail into the modern day, archaeological team’s characters and storyline, and less of the mundane, day-to-day events of the two clans.
