You know how sometimes you judge a book by its cover? Come, on...we all have done it. I am so guilty of making this mistake with Child 44. I also prejudged the story based on the blurb. And I am the first to admit that I was so wrong! The first few pages really reel the reader into the story. It i...
Did like the setting in Stalin's Russia and it was gripping all the way. The oppressive backdrop made the characters believable. Sometimes a little too violent for my liking but did not think it gratuitously so. Would recommend it to fans of fast reading thrillers in a well researched era.
So many excellent reviews, I have little to add except...how do these English writers do it? Mr Smith writes like he was there in Moscow in the '50s (Lee Child, another English author, writes as if he grew up in the American South and served in the US Army). The first 200 pages were absolutely brill...
When I first found this on the shelf, it had just come out. I was interested in unique crime fiction and this fit the bill. I am not terribly much interested in historic Russia but the author sucked me into this world with his character. This is one of those books that you really should try. Give it...
Maybe when I put some time between myself and this book I will be able to give it the 5 stars I think it might deserve but reading it left me so horrified that I can't give it more than 4 stars at present.I was not ignorant about the excesses of the Soviet Regime in Stalin's time. I studied the Russ...
Had binned this but after such glowing reviews by trusted friends it is back on the shelves g drive audioRead by . . : Dennis BoutsikarisPublisher . : Hachette Audio (2008) ISBN . . . .: ISBN-10: 160024159X ISBN-13: 9781600241598#87 TBR Busting 2013
At first, I felt like this novel started throwing too many characters out there, making it a bit hard to keep track of everyone. But eventually it came together for me. I do have to say that the big twist of the story is really morbid. But in context and considering the whole of the novel, it's a re...
The first chapter starts with a pair of starving children in a Russian village in the 1930s, hunting a scrawny, skeletal cat, possibly the last surviving creature on four legs in the region. Catching it may be life or death for them, and I was hooked right from the start. Child 44 is a brutal book, ...
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