Tom Rob Smith to postać, o której raczej głośno do tej pory nie było. Ten były student literatury angielskiej, późniejszy scenarzysta stacji BBC postanowił napisać powieść, która otrzymała tytuł „Ofiara 44”. Nie byłoby w tym oczywiście nic nadzwyczajnego, gdyby nie dwie kwestie. Po pierwsze: fabuła ...
There has been a glut of books in recent months in which the narrator may or may not be psychologically disturbed. The Farm takes this trend one step further. As The Farm is a story within a story, readers get the chance to see and hear a potentially unreliable narrator through another set of eyes. ...
Sometime you have to give a book a second chans. I started to read the book last year but never finished it but a couple of days ago I thought "what the hell" I want to know the ending and I borrowed the book from the library again to pick up where I left it. I'm glad I did it, since the book actual...
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...
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...
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