The Scarred Woman (A Department Q Novel)
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1.5/5 Journal 64 (or The Purity of Vengeance, what a weird English title) was my favourite book in this series. The first two already grabbed me, especially the characters were so well done, and I was always intrigued to go back into the cellar of department Q (especially with Assad and Rose). But after the fourth series of the book I realized that Adler-Olsen is not only a writer for a series of thrillers that may entertain the masses but also someone who has to say something important. If you are interested in only reading one book in the series I would recommend you the 4th one. Not this one, The Scarred Woman, three books later. Don’t get me wrong, I still enjoyed the characters and the dynamics between them. And I also loved that the focus of this book was somewhat Rose. She deserves this. But other than that, most of the different plots in this book (there are many of them in here) seem to be irrelevant and a little over the top. I really liked how the author connected all the lose threads in the end, even though I saw some of that coming right away. But I disliked how he wrote the women in this book. Women are clearly the focus of this book and probably all of them were unlikeable. Usually I love this – the difficult woman is one of my favourite trope in books, movies and tv shows. But the motives of the characters here seem to be so over the top and I did not understand or see where neither the unemployed women nor the social worker are coming from with these thoughts. And the end/conclusion was too action-y and… yeah, bad. I don’t search for good or understandable motives, or even realistic ones. A book should entertain and this one more or less did so. But it also sounded like a bad statement, the critique of the health and welfare system in Denmark (plus Europe I guess) did not come through. It had great potential in general. All of these storylines alone would have been very entertaining when looked at it more closely (what was that Nazi and soldier storyline though? Thrown in, forgotten for 200 pages and then retrieved again? It wasn’t even explored, and I don’t think that the prologue had much impact on the general plot). I hope Jussi Adler-Olsen will find his true potential again for the last three books in this series.
Beschreibung
Beiträge
1.5/5 Journal 64 (or The Purity of Vengeance, what a weird English title) was my favourite book in this series. The first two already grabbed me, especially the characters were so well done, and I was always intrigued to go back into the cellar of department Q (especially with Assad and Rose). But after the fourth series of the book I realized that Adler-Olsen is not only a writer for a series of thrillers that may entertain the masses but also someone who has to say something important. If you are interested in only reading one book in the series I would recommend you the 4th one. Not this one, The Scarred Woman, three books later. Don’t get me wrong, I still enjoyed the characters and the dynamics between them. And I also loved that the focus of this book was somewhat Rose. She deserves this. But other than that, most of the different plots in this book (there are many of them in here) seem to be irrelevant and a little over the top. I really liked how the author connected all the lose threads in the end, even though I saw some of that coming right away. But I disliked how he wrote the women in this book. Women are clearly the focus of this book and probably all of them were unlikeable. Usually I love this – the difficult woman is one of my favourite trope in books, movies and tv shows. But the motives of the characters here seem to be so over the top and I did not understand or see where neither the unemployed women nor the social worker are coming from with these thoughts. And the end/conclusion was too action-y and… yeah, bad. I don’t search for good or understandable motives, or even realistic ones. A book should entertain and this one more or less did so. But it also sounded like a bad statement, the critique of the health and welfare system in Denmark (plus Europe I guess) did not come through. It had great potential in general. All of these storylines alone would have been very entertaining when looked at it more closely (what was that Nazi and soldier storyline though? Thrown in, forgotten for 200 pages and then retrieved again? It wasn’t even explored, and I don’t think that the prologue had much impact on the general plot). I hope Jussi Adler-Olsen will find his true potential again for the last three books in this series.