I came across this book at the library a while ago and thought "why not?" Hence, I borrowed it and started to read it. At first, I wasn't impressed at all. I found the reviews saying it was a thrilling read bla, bla, bla were a bit exaggerated. The author seemed to have some kind of megalomania going on with a lot of "difficult" words in like every sentence. Interestingly enough, I continued reading. The plot was at the point quite boring and the book was being a really slow read. It was actually just standing in my bookshelf for a while, nothing made me want to read it until I just decided to get rid of it. That's when it started getting better. Suddenly, some interesting characters were introduced and the mystery which the book evolves around was starting to become a real mystery. Earlier it had just seemed like a teacher's obsession. Hmm, maybe I should talk about what the book is about? Let's do that.

30-ish-year-old teacher Pierre Hoffman takes over a school class after the mentor died in what looks like a suicide. The class has a strange way of acting and Pierre realises something has got to be wrong with the class. He comes up with the conclusion that the class murdered their old teacher and it developes into his own little detective's show. Throughout all this he has some philosophical moments where he ponders everything that he can come up with. When he is not pondering och doing detective's work, he is observing people's behaviour and making assumptions about them which are almost always spot on.

Well, well. Let's get to the reviewing stuff. I was a bit annoyed by the "Hey! Let's put all kinds of pro-words into this book so that I look really smart!"-mentality. The funny thing was that it reflected in both the author's style and in the main character. Coincidence? All in all, I give it a three. To give it a two would be too hard as it was more than OK but it wasn't good enough to deserve a "I really liked it". I disliked it becouse of the excrutiatingly slow pace and the lack of a good plot but liked it because of the unique style and all the things that go around the plot, the backgrounds, descritions and thoughts about I-don't-know-what.

If you have some patience, read this book. It's not a masterpiece, far from it, but it's worth a try.