Die Vier Ecken Des Himmels Roman (2010) - Plot & Excerpts
It was "ok" because it could have been better. I liked the large cast of characters with their background stories; the mystery plot with non-stop action kept me going. I needed to read the ending.The main reason I did not like this long book: it inched along, and took three steps backward filling in the background of everyone's life. It was chaotic. It could have been shorter, most of the problems could have been avoided had the characters just talked openly to each other. However, the characters did talk NONSTOP! (It was like trying to follow an episode of WEST WING! UGH!) It drove me crazy, there was no down time. They were always phoning each other, using kitschy oneliners or too many quotes from movies,French sayings with no translation. And then the convenient phone calls from dad at just the right time. One more thing about why it bugged me, and I will stop, the female pilot main character was built on the theory she liked to go fast and fly airplanes, and yet I felt like the author knew nothing about flying. Apparently she can just fly every kind of air frame out there with no training. It all ends how you think it will. SO what was the point?I liked the idea of this book, just not the execution. National Library Month book pick 2013. Interesting premise but you'd think this author was being paid by the word--way too many more words than necessary to tell this tale of a con man, his daughter, and their unique family dynamic. Enjoyable but long-winded. Had to skep intire pages of descriptions that added nothing to the plot or enhanced the characters. Girl gets abandoned by her father at his sister's house when the kid is 7. Sister and friend raise the girl, who has always wanted to learn to fly,which she does as a teenager. Later, as a US Navy pilot, she test flies some of the fastest machines in the world. She also gets sucked in to one of her father's cons involving lots of money, a stolen statue, precious gems, a drug lord, and the US government. Oh yeah, there's a parallele love-and-ex-love story with, of course, a happy ending and a sad epilogue.
What do You think about Die Vier Ecken Des Himmels Roman (2010)?
Took me a whole to get into the book, but it was worth the effort.
—maddiepatty
delightful mystery which held me engage from beginning to end
—andrew11224
Had me from beginning to end. Cheering for this family!
—maritina
