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I’m posting this early because I will be very likely to forget when the time comes. Feel free to ignore until the week actually starts. Or feel free to go ahead and post now. This is the final week anyway
I finished it this morning. Kind of an abrupt ending. I expected some sort of epilogue at least. It felt like the ending of any random chapter.
Overall, as I said in a previous chapters discussion, after the actual death, the book kind of went downhill for me. I enjoyed it still, but it didn’t really reach that high again. I kept waiting for the next murder, and while people died it wasn’t really directly by his hands. Maybe the book should have been called achtsam mafia werden to be more accurate.
Overall I enjoyed the book, but not something I will likely think back on.
I finished the book still within book club time (an accomplishment since unfortunately I’ve been reading only sporadically lately).
It was fun and witty, but overall I must say it didn’t satisfy me so much as a Krimi. I guess I was hoping for a more sociopathic main character than this. Don’t get me wrong, he’s no well adjusted saint, but the fact is that the people he (mostly indirectly) murdered were all criminals themselves, and you could argue that not only he was acting in self defence but was also doing society as a whole a service. I’m a bad person who would have enjoyed the stakes to be higher and the victims to be a little more innocent, I think. I would also have liked a little more gore, like the way he dealt with the first victim. That’s where the book peaked, for me.
Thank you all for reading with me, it was a lot of fun. See you at the poll for our next pick tomorrow!
Yes, gotta agree with you here. For me the best part of a Krimi is the policework and the whodunnit guesswork, I think. While this one was more a social study of gangsters, marriages and the common ground between them, so to speak
I like the author’s writing style a lot but it was not realistic enough for my taste, I guess.
Looking forward to our next pick
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