Review: Bizarre
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 08 17, 2013
Looks like I'm in a minority here, based on other reviews I'm reading for this book.This was a strange book for me. I'm not sure if it is just because I am not used to reading books written by German authors, or if the book truly is strange.Bille is a woman charged with the murder of her husband. The book starts as she recounts the seven days of her trial in journal type entries directed toward her old lover/defense attorney. There is a very bizarre vulgar sexual paragraph thrown in there which does not seem to fit with the rest of the book. I'm guessing it was intended to show us the nature of Bille's past relationship with Ulli but it just feels completely out of place.Then we move on to Book 2, which is Bille telling her story of the past and how things led up to the trial. Most of it is a repeat of her musings from the trial, with a few odd bits of new information thrown in.Then she recounts the story a third time calling it The True Story, again mostly repeated from earlier tellings with only a few extra bits of information thrown in here and there.She later recounts what happened to her husband during the two years he was missing and there are a couple of twists and turns in the end.This is far from the worst book I've ever read, but it isn't the best either. I liked the twisted ending, but hated the continuous repetition and kept thinking, just get on with it already.