Sheers is already a minor celebrity and his website lists his many successes. These include the new film coming out that is based on this particular book. This poet and author was born in Fiji in the 1970s and brought up in Abergavenny, South Wales (United Kingdom).



‘Resistance’ is a World War II novel that explores possibilities of wartime events that would have reshaped the world has we know it. The research and feasibility studies of such adventures and misadventures are likely to have been based on factual evidence. Similarities are predictable between the plot and factual evidence from the build up to the Nazi occupation of the Channel Islands.

All our members agreed that the author’s love of words and excessive use of them did not made this an easy book to read. It is Sheer’s first published novel and one member wondered if he was paid per word!

The majority of us read the first few chapters and skipped to the ending, or just gave up completely. Only one reader has actually finished the book and said that it was only about mid-way through that she began to really care what happened to the main characters.

Another member commented that although the book seemed to be well written, but ‘it wasn’t for me!’

We noted that some books seemed more suitable for men than women and how difficult it would be to work out if ‘Resistance’ as a wartime novel, might appeal more to men. There was no one in the plot that our members felt they could relate to and the characters were not very interesting.

The group went on to discuss how World War II still affects patterns of speech and behaviour even now. Members who were born up to a decade after 1945 grew up with the effects of rationing and queuing for food. They clearly remember dire warnings about eating everything up, or risking the disapproval of elderly relations.

It was acknowledged that locally, in the Llanelli area, the effects of a world war were minor in comparisons with the devastation in cities in the United Kingdom like London, Cardiff and Swansea. One German pilot did manage to lose his way and landed at Pembrey by mistake. (Our local airport near Llanelli in Wales)
We gave it an average mark of only 2 out of 10.