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Harika bir kitap! Bunu okumak ve Lucifer'in ölümünü ve onun düşmesini bir iblis perspektifinden görmek çok etkileyici. Lee, içinde bir şeytan bulunan pek çok kitapta eşlik eden görünen üst “korku” olmadan bu karakteri canlandıran muhteşem bir iş yapıyor. Çok az düşünmeye kışkırtıyordum.

Bir hafta sonu okumak için iyi. Büyük bir güvensizlik askıya alındı, ancak karakterler ilgi çekici ve açıklamalar canlı.

The book itself for reading is decent, very fast and light (for what should be heavy subject matter). If you have the choice, I recommend listening to her instead--that will make you love her stuff.

من همیشه در یک زمان در دو دنیا زندگی کرده بودم - به همسازی دو جانبه آنها اعتقاد داشتم - دلحوشی ِ بی اساسی بود - حالا از یکی از آنها محروم شده بودم - از آن که حقیقی بود - حالا تنها دنیای افسانه ها برایم باقی مانده است - هرچند که آنجا در انتظارم هستند - هرچند سرباز فراری مرا فرا می خواند و اسب و روبند سرخی برای چهره ام آماده کرده است - بله - حالا می دانستم - حالا می دانستم چرا نمی گذاشت روبندم را بردارم و اصرار داشت که خودش همه چیز را برایم بگوید - بلاخره فهمیدم که چرا صورت شاه باید پوشیده باشد - منظورشان این نبود که کسی او را نبیند - بلکه می خواستند که - او - هیچ نبیند

The central character is Detective Constable Alisha Barba, a young Indian woman of Sikh heritage who grew up in London's East End. She was introduced to us previously in Michael Robotham's novel Lost, where she suffered significant spinal injuries. In this novel she is mostly healed, almost married, nearly transferred and virtually sacked from the police force as she undertakes her own rogue investigations. Alisha is drawn into the plot when her estranged friend of 8 years Cate Beaumont and Cate's husband Felix are intentionally run down and murdered outside a school reunion. The plot thickens when seemingly pregnant Cate, is found to be wearing padding and in fact faking the pregnancy. Having wronged Cate 8 years ago, Alisha commits to a journey of retribution, seeking to find the answers to why her friend was murdered and why she was faking the pregnancy. The journey reunites Alisha with her now retired former Police boss Vincent Ruiz and takes her to the seedier side of Amsterdam, as she slowly unravels an international people-smuggling and illegal baby surrogacy racket. I really enjoy Robotham's books and this was no exception. Despite some less-than-flattering reviews I found Alisha an interesting and believable, albeit sometimes flighty protagonist. And sure, maybe the book was a little padded. I am not sure that I needed to know the intricacies of Dutch prostition, Amsterdam's street geography, or about Alisha's brother's love life and perhaps a red pen might have purged 50 or so pages. This aside, I found the book intriguing and absorbing. Infused with the moralistic issue of helping childless couples to become parents versus the risk, inhumanity, persecution, prostitution and even slavery associated with people smuggling. In this sense the book appealed to me. The novel made me think, it had depth, suspense, twists, turns and resonated in my mind by posing questions well after I had turned the last page. Congratulations to Mr Robotham on another quality novel.

First time around, I thought this book was a dog. Pretentious, purposely opaque, not a good time. The second time around, it's still pretentious, many times opaque, but it depends what you're looking for. Knowing that a tidy resolution wasn't the point helped me enjoy the maze. It's still a challenging read, often hard to digest grammatically, which I'm no great fan of. I don't have anything against compound sentences, but when fans of a book tell you to avoid close readings, just let the text wash over you--experience it--that book's music is on the threshold of noise. Hey I love Wilco's "A Ghost Is Born," but not for the feedback in-between tracks. Just keep a joyful distrust of the author; a book can outsmart anyone. Just don't let it put you down.