Leo's awakening. In the beginning of the book, Leo is a strong, effective state agent. Then things happened that begin to shake his faith of the state, or the state methodology. He was an agent of the state that caught citizens who were accused of subversion. Yet, these people who are caught ar...
How do you take a story of Chikatillo and make it somehow the government's fault? Why take the serial crimes happening in 1978-1990s and place these in 1960s? A get all about the artistic licence. And I'm no fan of USSR as well. But I'm no fan of blatant misrepresentation of widely-known facts. You ...
In Russia serial killer not Russian.Child 44 follows MGP - Russian police- security officer Leo Demidov. Leo tows the party line until circumstances force him to accept that crime does actually does exist in the Soviet Union. Leo is the only person interested in bringing a prolific serial killer to ...
5/7 - Reading this book is making me HATE a country (I'm not sure if that's the right word, maybe it should be state), the Soviet Union to be exact. Of course the Soviet Union no longer exists and I believe life is better in Russia and the other countries that made up the USSR. But for me the feelin...
This is a good solid 3.5 for me. For me, at times, the book relied too much on constantly shifting from the worst to best case scenarios. It is so much the mystery that gets you, but the journal that Leo and Raisa go on in terms of themselves and their relationship. The book also does make it f...
Stalin’s Russia – manufacturing was booming but bread lines were everywhere, freedom was a thing of the past, the government controlled everything you heard, read and thought, even forcing you to question what you saw with your own eyes. If you chose not to follow the program there were always the ...
A good page turner, set in Soviet Russia where the party is pushing the Communist ideal and claiming dropping crime rates. The main character, a detective, suddenly realises this isn't the case after realising one person sentenced to death after a false confession is actually innocent.Looking furthe...
Good, but not great. The mystery was given away about 2/3 through and it wasn't as great of a mystery as the book wanted it to be. Character development felt forced at times, and much of the dialog was on the nose. There were some interesting and redeeming aspects, like the setting/world. A decent r...
In Stalin’s Soviet Union, crime does not exist. But still millions live in fear. The mere suspicion of disloyalty to the State, the wrong word at the wrong time, can send an innocent person to his execution. Officer Leo Demidov, an idealistic war hero, believes he’s building a perfect society. But a...
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