Tengo que ser honesta, me costo trabajo leerlo, no logro engancharme, porque desde mi punto de vista, fue demasiado psicológico con la trama, ya se, que de eso se trata, pero es que, es difícil engancharte a una lectura cuando te pasas paginas escuchando los pensamientos de los actores principales, fue demasiado para mi.

Eso no quiere decir que el libro sea malo, no lo es, esta extraordinariamente bien escrito y el thriller es definitivamente un suspense interesante.

Una pequeña niña es testigo de la muerte de su abuelo, esto la lleva a quedar en shock, casi en estado catatónico, por lo que la llevan a ver a un psicólogo para esclarecer que fue lo que sucedió.

No les voy a contar mas, los invito a que lean el libro, puede ser que a ustedes les enganche mucho mas que a mi

It's Christmas in the Austrian town of Furth am See and psychiatrist Raffael Horn is over-run with patients. A young girl is brought to him as she refuses to speak. She has just seen the mutilated body of her grandfather, his head unrecognisable.

Don't let the title fool you, there is no sugar coating to The Sweetness of Life and its January publication date is probably wise even though it is set of the Christmas week. It's a bit of a depressing read, especially for this time of year. A large proportion of the book is given to descriptions of Horn's patients which makes you feel like the whole town is mentally ill.

The cover states that this is a Kovacs and Horn Investigation however Kovacs really doesn't get much page space and there's not a lot of investigation going on. It's more of a study of psychology than a traditional crime novel. In the world of Furth am See, psychopaths seem to get away with anything providing they have a doctor's note to say it wasn't their fault and animal cruelty is dismissed. It doesn't give you much faith in justice for the characters.

The prose switches from second person for Horn and Kovacs and to first person for the thoughts of a troubled boy, who we know about his family. There are a lot of characters to keep track of and many aren't relevant at all to the plot. I found myself not really understanding the ending. Sometimes it's great to have questions left unanswered but I was left feeling like I'd missed something.

man trūkst vārdu, cik ļoti man šī grāmata patika. it kā kriminālromāns, taču noziegums ir tikai tāds nežēlīgs iemesls, kā legāli nokļūt sniegota ciemata iedzīvotāju mājās, prātos un psihiatra kabinetā. un to kabinetu vajag visiem, bez izņēmuma.

"es ēdu kartupeļu biezeni ar ceptu sīpolu gredzeniem. lore uztaisīja. garšo tīri okei, vismaz tie gredzeni. bet viņa tik un tā ir poļu mauka. dzeru piparmētru tēju."

šis ir diezgan lieliski, man šķiet.

Für mich persönlich dreht es sich in dem Buch zu wenig um den Mordfall an sich (wie es in einem kriminal Roman sein sollte) sondern viel mehr um tausende unnötige Nebengeschichten der Haupt und Nebencharaktere.

An interesting crime novel set in Austria which appears is the first in a series. It introduces us to two principal characters, a child psychiatrist (Horn), with a cello paying wife who seems a little unstable, he is overworked with a curious array of patients, and a world weary detective (Kovacs) with an interesting sex life and was an engaging character. The first chapter sees a young child staying at her grandfathers home, she witnesses the results of a brutal crime and is referred to Horn as she now mute. The investigation then sets off and we meet various characters in the town who could be the criminal.
Overall I enjoyed the book and the interaction of psychiatrist and detective was sufficiently novel and intriguing to make me want to try more- however I found the last few chapters very confusing and I am still a little at a loss as to exactly what happened!!

Iestājoties pelēkuma sezonai, var patīkami iegrimt šajā kriminālajā ziemas stāstā - te būs gan asiņaina, gan garīga vardarbība (brīdināšu, ka tā ir arī pret dzīvniekiem un bērniem), gan arī skaista ziema, sniegs, zvaigznes un izjusta šīs ziemas baudīšana.

Šī grāmata varētu sagādāt vilšanos tiem, kas ciena spraigus sižetus, trillerīgas lietas, pakaļdzīšanās, spriedzīti un tamlīdzīgi. Šis stāsts ir vairāk apcerīgs, par cilvēku un lietu dabu un ar lielu uzsvaru uz to, kas notiek mūsu galvās. Ja godīgi, pie beigām man tomēr jau arī gribējās dinamiskāku notikumu virzību un spraigāku finālu. Bet kopumā šo grāmatu ļoti izbaudīju.

““Reizēm dzīvē viss vienkārši nobrūk tev pāri, un tu neesi gatavs,” vīrietis bilda. Un reizēm dzīvē nekas tev nenobrūk pāri, un arī tam tu neesi gatavs, domāja Kovačs.”

The epigraph should warn you:

"But since the great foundation of fear in children is pain, the way to harden and fortify children against fear and danger is to accustom them to suffer pain."