Review: A different kind of thriller
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 11 16, 2013
I lived in Stuttgart for a couple of years and I enjoy some German writers.  I saw "The Seventh Day" and decided to try it because of the interesting storyline.  Bille and her best friend share an apartment.  She has a hot affair with Ulli until she meets his partner Michael.  Her girlfriend quickly takes up with Ullie and gets pregnant with twins  and they marry.  Micheal and Sybille survive and overseas internship before they marry and decide to work on their careers and end up buying a mansion of sorts.  They get married and and have a hard time getting pregnant when they decide to try, but when it happens she feels like her life is perfect and dances with her friend around the exam room now that her friend is back to work as an OB/GYN doctor.  One Friday her husband doesn't come home and is gone for two years when someone overhears his receptionist tell her that she thinks she saw Michael.  Bille lost the baby, her job, her mother and was reduced to poverty and the only thing holding her together is anger and revenge.  Bille goes to a bar to wait for Michael to return, drinks too much and wakes in her hotel room  with a bloody knife and a murder charge.  The ending is a surprise because Bille is normally a women who never gives up but she does not let us down.  It takes a while to figure out why she confessed to the murder but it is rewarded in the end.The translation only confuses me in the end.  SPOILER ALERT.....I think Bille and her girlfriend conspire to kill Ullie.  Her girlfriend because he was in love with Bille and was going to leave his wife and Bille for revenge because he destroyed her life and everything that was important to her to cover up his crimes and then left her to take the fall even if he did try to mitigate his guilt by defending her.  If I have that wrong tell me.  It is a different kind of thriller telling the story of how far you can fall when you try to climb the summit and how little we know the people around us sometimes.