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Intrige In Parijs (2013)

by Robert Goddard(Favorite Author)

3.65 of 5 Votes: 3

ISBN

902456364X (ISBN13: 9789024563647)

languge

English

genre

Historical Fiction

publisher

Uitgeverij Luitingh - Sijthoff

series

The Wide World Trilogy

review 1: Good mystery set primarily in Paris at time of the peace talks after WW1. Downside is the whole thing is still somewhat unresolved at the end when you see a nice large "To be continued" message. I was looking at the remaining pages and wondering how it was all going to get wrapped up in so few pages but that was still a surprise. Good enough story and characters though that I will read the next one. I will flip to the end first however,and if I see that same message again, I may pass unless the initial story line is wound up and any future books are more of a continuation of the main character which I can see being ok.
review 2: I was a fan as soon as I read Robert Goddard’s first novel, ‘Past Caring’, published in 1986. He is a hard-working author, prod... moreucing regular novels, and I admit I got out of the habit of buying them. Until ‘The Corners of the Globe’. I started reading, realised it was part 2 of a series, and promptly ordered book 1 on Kindle, the quickest way of getting it. ‘The Ways of the World’ didn’t let me down, not for nothing is Robert Goddard called ‘the king of the triple-cross’.In buying the book, I inadvertently read the reviews on Amazon, something I always try to avoid if I plan to review a book on my blog. I’d rather make up my own mind. Some of the reviews were mixed but I have to say I didn’t find this slow-going at all, perhaps it can be explained by the fact that this is the first of a series and therefore the plotting is intricate. The first book in a series must always include a fair amount of ‘setting-up’, what Christopher Vogler calls ‘The Ordinary World’. Perhaps the reviewer who thought the book slow-going didn’t get beyond that Ordinary World. Goddard, though, is a master-storyteller and I trusted him.The setting is post-Great War. Max, aka James Maxted, goes to Paris to investigate the strange circumstances of his father’s death. He stumbles into a melee of Government secrets, inter-war political wrangling, love affairs and assassinations. I warmed to Max straight away and just as quickly disliked his brother.Suffice to say, that by the end of book 1, various ends are left untied, new questions posed, and I was left wanting to read more. So after finishing this, I quickly started reading ‘The Corners of the Globe’ again. less

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