Finally done! I started out reading this mystery in Danish (for my Danish book club) while listening to the audio book, which turned out to be a bad idea because the narrator read faster than I did. I continued on in Danish on my own, but was having trouble following the plot because it is after ...
Despite this books flaws, I was driven to finish it at quite a pace not merely because of the events in the book and the characters who ran the gamut from sympathetic to grotesque, but also because the unique and shifting perspective of the narrator whose inner world is the largest part of the bo...
I am not sure what I think about this book. Though I can say that with the ending it has been given it was too long, I figured it out more or less half way through, and too much depressing information and characters that isn't essential for the book. I only finished it because I was very stubborn...
Maybe two stars is too harsh, because there were times that I was genuinely interested in Valeur's novel and cared about what happened. It gives an interesting narrative about adoption, sensationalism, and the lengths people will go to to protect their secrets. It's a story of longing to find one...
Starts out pretty strong, but then it just keeps going and going and introducing new characters and I just lost interest. I couldn't keep any of the characters straight, and it seemed like a lot of unnecessary information came in with every chapter. I'm still interested in the mystery of the orph...