Leugenaars by Ida Jessen. (★★) Country: Denmark Region: Europe
The original title of this books is 'Den der lyver' but in English you might know it as 'The Liar'. I didn’t really love this book. It is set in a small Danish countryside village. I don't know how it is to live there but I think it gives a good view into the village life of Hvium and it’s inhabitants. I liked that about the book. The first part about the story was nice to, where Christian moves to Hvium to become a countryside physician and the story develops as expected after reading the description of the book. Although it took me by surprise that the narrator of the book turns out to be Christian's sister, which I found a little strange at some points...
In the middle part of the book a few different story lines developed of which I didn't really get the point... one of them contains some (graphic) sex scenes that where not really necessary in my opinion. In the end the book gets back to (what I think is) the main storyline, which makes the end more interesting than the middle part. Although I new the book is part of a series I was a little surprised by the "open" ending. It made me curious to see if the next book continues with the same story? (but then again, maybe I just didn't get the ending...)
Country: Denmark
Region: Europe
The original title of this books is 'Den der lyver' but in English you might know it as 'The Liar'.
I didn’t really love this book. It is set in a small Danish countryside village. I don't know how it is to live there but I think it gives a good view into the village life of Hvium and it’s inhabitants. I liked that about the book. The first part about the story was nice to, where Christian moves to Hvium to become a countryside physician and the story develops as expected after reading the description of the book. Although it took me by surprise that the narrator of the book turns out to be Christian's sister, which I found a little strange at some points...
In the middle part of the book a few different story lines developed of which I didn't really get the point... one of them contains some (graphic) sex scenes that where not really necessary in my opinion. In the end the book gets back to (what I think is) the main storyline, which makes the end more interesting than the middle part. Although I new the book is part of a series I was a little surprised by the "open" ending. It made me curious to see if the next book continues with the same story? (but then again, maybe I just didn't get the ending...)
All in all it was not really a book for me.