Seize Boek Der Spiegels Translated By E.O. Chirovici Distributed As Interactive EBook

Book of Mirrors is a very clever novel, I do like one of those, It is also UTTERLY addictive picked this up earlier today meaning to make a start on it and now here we are and Im done.
On the surface it is an old school murder mystery but like an onion every layer you peel away reveals another layer, perception is in the eye of the beholder and it is an immersive experience in that your own perceptions and realities will definitely inform what you read.


We start with a manuscript section sent to an agent, But is the story in it true And what on earth actually did happen all those years ago considering the story is only half told What follows is a multi viewpoint unravelling of an old crime, character driven in more ways than one, endlessly compelling and with a narrative you will start questioning all the way.


I particularly liked how the author plays with the theme of memory, of how our life experiences skew our viewpoint, that thing that makes eye witness accounts of the same incident so very varied.
Whilst there is a police presence in The Book of Mirrors that is absolutely not its focus I wouldnt like to call it a psychological thriller either, it is more about letting the characters speak and therefore reveal not only themselves but perhaps the truth behind a murder.


Really beautifully constructed to encompass nuance of plot and depth of character, The Book of Mirrors is one of those novels you know you are going to continue to think back on, to wonder about.
It is a simple story in many ways, a story oft told within the human experience what Mr Chirovici does though is highly effective, fascinating and potent storytelling.
Hence I just lost my Saturday afternoon to it, Worth every minute.

Highly Recommended. "Uneori, cei plecați dintre noi sunt mai puternici decât atunci când trăiau, Amintirea lor, sau ceea ce doar credem că ne amintim despre ei, ne obligă să încercăm săi mulțumim întrun fel în care nar fi reușit să ne convingă so facem când erau vii.
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" . O chestie foarte ciudată Da' apoi mam obișnuit, Până la urmă, nai încotro și te obișnuiești cu orice, nui așa" Also ich bleibe dabei: In gedruckter Form hätte ich es vielleicht abgebrochen, als Hörbuch fand ich es aber toll : Ein gut geschriebener Kriminalroman, in dem es um ein unvollendetes Manuskript, einen ungeklärten Mordfall und die Unzuverlässigkeit und Manipulierbarkeit von Erinnerungen geht.
Erzählt wir nacheinander aus drei Perspektiven: aus der eines Literaturagenten, eines Reporters und eines pensionierten Polizisten, Das Buch hat genau meine Erwartungen nach einer kurzweiligen, nicht allzu tiefsinnigen Lektüre erfüllt und als solche kann ich es durchaus weiterempfehlen.
Allerdings würde ich Denis Scheck nicht zustimmen, der in dem Werk die erzählerische Raffinesse eines Werkes von Nabokov erkennt sitelink ardmediathek. de/tv/Druckfr . Muss ja aber auch nicht, The Book of Mirrors is an intelligent, wellpaced, decently written thriller set in the academia world, It was a fun, light read but it wasnt extraordinary, The written is simple, engaging and I can see a movie being made after the book,

I decided to read this novel when I saw the name of the author, Chirovici, It seemed Romanian it is and I was intrigued as I havent heard of him before, The research for more information took me to a Guardian article where I learned more about the author and the novel, E. O. Chirovici worked in Romania as a journalist and wrote mystery novels in his spare time as the market is too small here to be able to win enough money from writing.
He decided to move to UK in order to become a full time writer and after a short while he wrote Book

of Mirrors, his first novel written in English.
After failed attempts to find a publisher in the US he got lucky and managed to find an enthusiastic agent in UK, After that, the reception of his work gained momentum fast and the book was sold to publishers incountries even before the release date January.
Impressive and overwhelming, I would say, Will this be the literary mystery ” ofWe shall see,

The novels onset is ideal for a book lover, A literary agent receives a sample of a manuscript and it becomes apparent that the subject is a true crime that happened twentyfive years before in which the author was involved.
A famous psychology professor was killed at that time and the manuscript can prove to be the key to finding the killer, There is a only small problem, The author dies and the manuscript is nowhere to be found,

The book is structured in three parts and is narrated by three people: the agent, a journalist hired to investigate the disappearance and verity of the manuscript and a retired police officer that was assigned to the caseyears ago.
I thought the structure to be interesting and well done although the voices seemed somewhat similar,

The main theme that emerges from the novels pages is the unreliability of memory, The novel made me think of another book about memory, sitelinkThe Sense Of An Ending by Julian Barnes which probably inspired Chirovici as one of the three parts starts with a quote from the Booker winning novel.
From the beginning even from the title we are drawn to believe that the solution to the mystery has something to do with memory and human psychology but is it there where we have to look Or is this another mirror To find the answer to that question you need to read the book.


I received this copy from the publisher via NetGalley in exchange for an honest review,

The Guardian article I was talking about can be found here: sitelink theguardian. com/books/ I really enjoyed this thriller,

Peter Katzis a literary agent who receives an unusual query and partial manuscript from fledgling writer Richard Flynn, Richards powerful lifechanging and tragic story leaves Peter wanting to know more so he sets out to find the rest of the manuscript.


In the shared pieces of Richards manuscript we meet wickedly smart Laura Baines, a fellow Princeton psychology student studying to get her second Masters famous Professor Joseph Wieder, who runs a research program at Princeton that is expected to be a huge scientific breakthrough.
He is also supervising Laura on her graduate thesis, Laura is Wieders protégé but is she also something more Richard is falling in love with her and becoming suspicious, One day Joseph Wieder is murdered and Richard becomes a suspect,

The story is now in place and the search is on to find the rest of the manuscript and to find resolution in theyear old unsolved case.
It is set up in three parts from three different perspectives that of Peter Katz another from John Keller, a journalist/blogger and friend of Peter s whos curiosity is piqued after John tells him about Richard Flynns manuscript and lastly Roy Freeman, a retired detective involved in theyear old unsolved case and still obsessed by it.


Well, I became obsessed with this book, loved the multiperspectives, the twists and the mystery surrounding the manuscript, The backstories of characters were just right and didnt get bogged down, It was a suspenseful crime story that hooked me early on and kept me guessing until the end,

Thanks to Atria and Netgalley for providing an ARC, Great story! I read this insittings because it just kept steamrolling amp I wanted to know where amp how it was going to stop! A very intricately weaved tale told from different people's viewpoints kept it very interesting!

Thanks to Atria for this early copy in exchange for review!: This novel may have been slow but I found its mystery so enticing that I loved moving and learning with each character.
So many theories run through this novel that youre never sure what to think, its a great classic murder mystery,

Its only taken me almost a year to knock this book off my Netgalley shelf, but I finally got there! Id seen lots of hype for this one at the beginning ofbut I still didnt feel inclined to pick it up back then.
Now Ive read it, Im glad that I waited, I think this one would have disappointed me if I had read it in its prime due to its slow nature, but I can appreciate slow books far more now than I could back then.


Like so many other reviewers, I did think this one was pretty slow paced, but I actually quite liked that about the plot.
A cold case of overyears isnt going to get solved overnight, so it was practical that it took a while to find out what really went on that night.
I do think there were some sections of the book that were unnecessary and added to the slowness of the plot, for example when one narrator gets on a plane and theres a whole segment about an irrelevant salesman talking to him and flirting with a girl.
That bit wasnt needed in any way for the plot to progress and did just feel like filler bumf, but Ive read books with far worse filler scenes.


This story is told in a few different ways, Its told in the perspective ofdifferent people and then also as a book within a book, I really liked the way this was laid out and think having thedifferent tones of voice gave the story some character it could have missed out on had it just stayed with the one narrator.


Each character in this was interesting in their own way, and I liked that each person had their own story to tell while also moving the main mystery along.


In terms of plot, this one wasnt the most innovative or astounding, but there was something enchanting about it, There were a few different theories as to Professor Weiders demise and I liked that it kept you guessing all along, I was actually quite surprised and impressed by the end of the book, the conclusion to the mystery was cleverly thought out and well executed.


Looking at the reviews of this book I think people are being a little harsh, There are lots of books that are slow mysteries but this one seems to be pissing people off more than most, I know its down to everyones own opinion but I dont see what the big issue with this one was, Personally, I enjoyed it.

Thanks to Netgalley and Arrow for giving me the opportunity to read this in exchange for an honest review, .stele.

Mam încăpățânat să termin romanul, dat fiind celebritatea recentă a autorului și a contractelor semnate pentru traducerea ei, E primul roman citit de Chirovici, nu am idee dacă voi reveni și voi mai citi ceva,

Plusuri: lectură foarte rapidă, discurs cursiv, fără gafe de exprimare, metafore greșite, aiureli poetice cum am mai găsit prin câțiva autori români de thriller.
Senzația că nu citești romanul unui scriitor român, ci o traducere, Evident, cadrul poveștii, numele personajelor și intriga ajută la crearea acestei senzații, Intriga decentă, cu un plus pentru prima parte, De altfel, ca realizare literară, romanul pare să scadă valoric cu fiecare parte în parte: suntplus epilog,

Minusuri: detalii de construcție,voci diferite folosite ca narator, dar fără diferențe vizibile între ele, Intriga, interesantă la început, își pierde repede misterul și motivația de a merge înainte cu romanul nu prea are combustibil în paginile cărții.
Nu empatizezi decât cu primul personaj, autorul manuscrisului, Motivația de a duce ancheta la capăt din ultima parte mă refer la polițistul pensionar nu ține, e cusută cu ață albă pentru a prelua microfonul de la naratorul intermediar.
Finalul nu mulțumește pe nimeni și e suficient de plat cât să te gândești de ce ai mai citit cartea.
E mișto că autorul are grijă să contextualizeze bine detaliile din roman, evenimentele politice importante din anii respectivi, evoluția economică etc.
Însă de multe ori mania aceasta e transmisă personajelor, așa că mai toate vorbesc despre biografia lor, observă ca un bun detectiv detaliile unei încăperi, orientarea clădirilor etc.
De la un punct încolo devine deranjant,

Un roman decent, suficient de scurt pentru al duce până la capăt, Dublat de un PR bun, probabil,

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