Ninett
Review from when I read it as a teenager in 2011:
Legal thrillers are all great books, because the author is always a smart person who knows about law. This is no exception. Brilliantly paced and has twists and turns throughout. The main character is an interesting personality and this is what keeps you reading late into the night. The complex polt (sic) makes the reader think rather than just half-heartedly read. Evolving characters who cause surprises are of plenty
reviewed as a teenager in 2011:
A story of a group of tourists kidnapped by terrorists in India. They are held captive for months, and one by one they slowly go insande, only two make it out alive out of seven. In the beginning, the story is confusing, having to re-read parts to fully understand the author's logic, but once you get used to it, the story sucks you in and you can hardly put it down. Definitely worth the read.
I think that calling listicles ‘essays' is an affront to the learned world.
I tried twice with this one, years apart. I just can't ever look forward to reading more of it and it puts me in a slump. I don't like any of the characters and the plot is boring to me.
I found this book immensely boring, overambitious and contrived. It took considerable willpower to get to the 25% mark in it, and when even then it did not begin fulfilling on its page-turner promise I finally gave up on it. I felt that the author came up with an interesting idea about a physically impossible house and a separate idea about wacky formatting, and then just jammed the two ideas together, with a sprinkle of dry technical datasheet style documentation about both interspersed throughout. Yes, I understand that the formatting is meant to give us the same experience as the inhabitants of the house had, but it was so gimmicky and made it all a colossal hassle. He didn't even attempt to write well, thinking that the formatting will more than make up for it.
I just didn't get it. I thought it was unbearable in its dull, neverending descriptions of the most boring elements of peoples' lives. Maybe I should try again. I have a beautiful vintage copy.