Honestly, if it were not for the weird translation, this book would be a five-star review. It's the same complaint I've had for the previous two stories. I seriously think the German guy who wrote these would flip if he knew. I wonder if he does? Makes me wish I spoke German....Anyway, I really wa...
My Kindle and I spent some quality time together last night so I could finish The Hangman’s Daughter. Quick summary (I guess it might have tiny spoilers?): It’s 1660, and the people in the town of Schongau, Bavaria want to know who killed three children, who set fire to the warehouse, and who des...
Oliver Pötzsch, born in 1970, has worked for years as a scriptwriter for Bavarian Public Television. He is himself a descendant of the Kuisls one of the Bavaria's leading dynasties of executioners. Oliver Pötzsch and his family live in Munich.This book was a read for this month in one of my on line ...
“Under torture you are as if under the dominion of those grasses that produce visions. Everything you have heard told, everything you have read returns to your mind, as if you were being transported, not toward heaven, but toward hell. Under torture you say not only what the inquisitor wants, but al...
This book would have gotten a higher rating except I felt like it could have been 3/4 of the length. So many times I felt like I was being told the same things over and over again. For example (this isn't a spoiler) the hangman has a lot of medical knowledge and has a large collection of books about...
The author is a descendent of Kuisls Executioners and has taken that history and translated it into the fictional character of Jacob Kuisl, the hangman of Schongau. The story starts off at a decent pace and briefly tells the story of the grandfather who was the hangman and explains how the son does...
The Hangman's Daughter captivated me in the first chapter and provided some interesting historical facts and characters that immediately peaked my interest. Unfortunately once I reached the middle of the novel the plot became repetitive and I found myself slowly losing interest. I reached the point ...
I am going to do something I rarely do and call this book magical. This book sucked me in from the first page and was so much better than even I was hoping it would be. I had to force myself to put it down to work on other books I was reading. I was only going to give it 4 stars, but as I continued ...
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