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Ein wichtiges Buch zur Aufarbeitung von Covid-19 und unserer heutigen Zeit

Reviewed: 08-09-24

Dieses Buch ist keine leichte Lektüre und kapitelweise war mir direkt übel. Aber so war mir auch während der C-19 Pandemie monatelang übel. Und, wie es bei der C-19 Pandemie ein Leben vor und nach der Pandemie gibt, ist es auch für dieses Buch, bevor und nachdem man es gelesen hat: Nichts ist mehr wie vorher. Eine empfehlenswerte Lektüre für alle, die während der C-19 Pandemie ein manches Mal den Eindruck hatten, es ginge in die falsche Richtung und gegen den gesunden Menschenverstand und die bereit sind, sich kritisch auf eine gegensätzliche Meinung zur der im Mainstream vorherrschenden einzulassen, um ihre eigene Sichtweise zu erweitern und sich eine eigene Meinung zu bilden.
Glücklicherweise konfrontiert das Buch nicht nur mit grauslichen Fakten, die ein mancher schon erahnt haben mag, ohne die Zusammenhänge zu kennen, sondern zeigt auch Lösungsmöglichkeiten für eine begehbare, menschenwürdige Zukunft auf.
Wenn das Buch bald zensiert würde, wäre ich nicht überrascht; es konfrontiert mit unbequemen Wahrheiten.

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For fans of Peter May and Harry Potter combined

Reviewed: 14-03-24

This is a great reading for an author's debut. It might not have the depth of a Lewis Triology, more the entertaining elements of one of the earlier Enzo adventures. Dumbledores eternal fight against Voldemort is interwoven and there's even an Enzo Potter or Harry MacLeod. It's set in a beautiful part of Scotland and I learned something about Celtic myths that I might explore further. Entertaining.

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I loved the first two books more

Reviewed: 22-12-23

I loved the first two books and was a bit disappointed of this one. Discovering finally the impediment for a romantic love story that had already become a all-days friendship was a bit an anticlimax. One classic rule of good crime fiction is that the detective is never ahead with information that is withhold from the reader. To withhold intentionally information that is already known to the protagonists isn't a tool to create suspense that really works. I found it a bit enjoying. But it's still quite a good story.

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Addictive - One of the best books ever

Reviewed: 08-10-23

I didn't like Ink Black Heart, boring at lengths. This is outstanding. I hold me hostage for 24 hours of gripping listening I wasn't wanting to interrupted. Great plot, important subject, especially in these times of all-over manipulation and brain-washing over the media.

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Over 12 hours of pure narration

Reviewed: 27-03-23

Robert Harris is one of my favourite authors. "Selling Hitler" gives an inside in his meticulous research for his novels. I was in Hamburg at the time and remember well not only the newspaper titles but also the general opinion that IN GERMANY were mostly good people and that "we were somehow different from other countries because we had no such thing a general corruption". This was, of course, nonsense. But somehow, we believed it, and the memory of Inspector Derrick catching all the bad ones was still vivid. I also remember now that, as a teenager, I had once been in the shop in Milchstraße and had wondered how someone could be interested in buying that stuff after all the Nazis had done. For these reasons, I made it to the end and listened to over 12 hours of pure narration. The story is incredible but endless and boring to listen to. I Robert Harris had created a novel, interwoven with fiction, like "Fatherland", I would have loved it.

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Great Island Detective Story

Reviewed: 20-03-23

Ambiented in the Inner and Outer Hebrides, gripping story.
I only wished the narrator was less detached. The story loses suspense because of that. It not a fairy tale, there are strong scenes. Get more involved when reading and a brilliant narrator will become a voice artist. Get more natural. Read as if people where really speaking. Make pauses, when they are lost for words, when they see something scary, when they are in doubt. Bring them to life.

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Gripping story

Reviewed: 17-02-23

This is a great beginning. Looking forward to listening to the next books of the series. For Colin Mace's reading it was at times a bit toring to listen. Wrong intonation sometimes. Parts of phrases separated by pauses that should have gone together. same reading rhythm for long passages.
But I believe he has the potential for becoming a very good voice performer.

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This story is woldclass & awsome

Reviewed: 28-01-23

I've been watching the movie many times and love it. The scene in the beginning with car left into the ferry, that it never stops raining on the isle of Sylt (Martha's Vineyard) but hadn't listened to the audiobook because I prefer British to American English voice artists. This book is I N C R E D I B L E. Read it. Enjoy it. A masterpiece.

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Another outstanding Peter May novel

Reviewed: 21-01-23

Another great Peter May novel. Another outstanding Peter Forbes performance. You won't be disappointed.
The future in which Peter May sets his novel is, helas, more than plausible. Peter May has shown once again that he is a great master. I am looking forward to more novels set in a future Scotland by Peter May.

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Poor plot

Reviewed: 01-01-23

I took all three books to see how far the American propaganda would sadly go in a situation of war where dialog would much be in need instead of heating up the situation.
Besides, if you check the author's background, what I should have done before reading, you understand why my impression might not be so far-fetched. The plot is poor as to be expected for a teenager's novel maybe. The American President can't do anything wrong and all his measures are justified. At least, it's a simple world. There's are the good boys on one side with a fatherly figure as President of the USA and the villains in the Cremlin on the other. The Russian Prime Minister is depicted as a criminal and the names given to the fictive characters are poorly concealed. This made the story boring for me even if its likely to be the American way of seeing the world, with the late Queen Elizabeth nothing else to do with her life than wanting to drink tea with some American teenagers because the FBI told her so. But the teenagers sadly can't stay because they have to save the world. Didn't like the high-pitched girl's voices either.

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