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Das Buch Des Verrats Thriller (2007)

by Gayle Lynds(Favorite Author)

3.51 of 5 Votes: 2

ISBN

3453408357 (ISBN13: 9783453408357)

languge

English

genre

Mystery & Thriller

publisher

Heyne, W

review 1: The Book of Spies gives us a storyline with thrills, mystery, espionage, and a secret book club with members willing to steal, cheat, and kill to keep it a secret. The story starts off with a very intriguing question. What happens when Eva Blake is accused of killing her husband in automobile accident she can't remember but is certain she is innocent of? This is a fantastic, "What if?" to start a story and it's what kept me turning the pages...until I got so confused by the numerous points of view (POV) by so many characters I had a hard time figuring out who was who and how they were all connected.I was intrigued by Eva Blake's situation. I was invested in her story. I was invested in the story of the man who rescued her from prison. I was even invested in the early plot... more twist but the problem with so many character POV's by secondary characters was that I was pulled from those main character's story for so long I forgot about them. There were SO MANY character's whose minds I had to dive into so the story could be told that it became overwhelming and left me really uninterested in any single character's ordeal. Secondary characters are there for a purpose-to move the story along. But several of these secondary characters had their own story and with the right "What if" question could probably be the main character in a book of their own. Unfortunately, Gayle Lynds, gave too much of them and not enough to the main characters. This is literally, "It takes a village" moment in which, I suppose, it took a huge cast to get this story told.
review 2: For me 3 stars is being overly generous. Gayle Lynds can write a good thriller but this is not one of them. The characters are so wooden I have splinters in my eyes. This should really be 2.5 Stars. What Library of Gold? Ivan the Terrible's. Secretly buried under the Kremlin and no one can find it? Gggeeezz. She sure slings a lot of hash in this story. Everyone is looking all over for The Library of Gold, you know Ivan The Terrible's book collection of ancient golden and be-jeweled illuminated books and we have the CIA and the evil Book Club grappling for power of this imaginary book collection. The guys in the Book Club are so wicked and evil and rich that I couldn't stop laughing at how hokey they are. I really expected a better read from this after reading all these 5 star reviews? There are so many "facts" which are not researched at all. Like Mahmud and Ghazni and Mahmud's diamond mines in Khost, Afghanistan. Mahmud got his diamonds conquering parts of India--not mines in Khost. And these are supposed to be $100 Trillon Dollar diamond mines? And the Book Club guys are supposed to be financially intelligent? I like fiction but this is pure fantasy. No thrills here and very predictable with a rushed ending.There are so many holes in this story, but the biggest hole is The Library of Gold itself which consists of all books with book covers and spines gold and jewel encrusted and very rare and some dating back to the Ancient Library of Alexandria. Priceless. Books that survived he destruction of Alexandria's Library??? Supposedly Ivan's Library of Gold (800 books) has some of the works of Homer and Aristophanes and Archimedes etc etc etc from Alexandria and Homer's book cover is covered in a dazzling gold as are most of the books. This is all wrong.Why? They wrote on papyrus, animal skins or parchment scrolls--not books like we have today. The concept of books like we know today, called a codex (pages with covers) did not come about until 300 AD +/-, let alone gold and jewel encrusted covers or illuminated manuscripts. Scrolls didn't have covers. The book codex, pages, cover, format began in 300 AD as papyrus became unavailable for scrolls. So the books Gayle describes are just IMPOSSIBLE. Ivan's Library should have been papyrus, parchment, or animal skin scrolls...not books. No gold. No jewels. No Illuminated Manuscripts.SPOILERS SPOILERS**********************************************Of course I just can't believe she has characters who are being pursued using their personal cell phones and not throwaways. Duh. Talk about stupid spies?Eva and Judd are the two main characters and they are solid wood and poorly developed and they run from one mini-mayhem to the next quickly. It gets tedious. Almost monotonous...predictable. I never felt very involved with this story. No sitting on the edge of my seat...no suspense.Here is a piece of sappy narrative LOL, "She remembered how he had pulled her to him after she had almost pitched off the yacht, how he had wrapped his arms around her and held her tight, how he had kissed her hair...the wonderful sound of his pounding heart. His musky, wet smell." This is almost Harlequin. All in all it is an OK read for the thriller genre if you suspend any thinking--but nothing special. I'm sure she follows some thriller formula which might please some readers but it didn't work for me and I wish it did. It does take a very skilled writer to have so many story holes and yet still sell a million copies. less

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