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La Casa Di Pan Di Zenzero (2008)

by Carin Gerhardsen(Favorite Author)

3.51 of 5 Votes: 3

ISBN

8866201022 (ISBN13: 9788866201021)

languge

English

genre

Mystery & Thriller

publisher

Dalai

series

Hammarbyserien

review 1: Started out strong but I felt like it lost it in the end. The premise was interesting - the effect that constant bullying & abuse has on a person, but it felt like the author was trying too hard to make us feel sorry for the murderer. At first. I did like that the murderer's perspective was told in first-person so we never really knew for sure who it was. The writing was clear & concise, very descriptive. I liked it. Except for the whole Lebanon war thing at the start of the second plot line - it was too much and I really lost interest at that part. But I definitely did not like the last 50 pages. It felt like the author realized there was still a lot more story to tell and didn't have the time, space, or inclination to continue writing; maybe she lost track of where the s... moretory was going and just wanted to finish; or maybe even that they were either written by someone else. After the easily predictable plot twist, we were subjected to pages and pages of info-dump directly from the words and thoughts of the murderer. I don't understand why that stuff couldn't have been written into the first person diaries throughout the book.
review 2: Bought this as a Kindle Deal of the Day for $2. The story was good enough to keep me reading but I felt like the writing could have been tightened up a bit. Story line was good with a nice little twist at the end although it felt a bit anticlimactic in the way it was written. I'd say give it a go and see what you think. Good for it being the author's first novel and I think her next will be even better. less

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