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translated into Finnish: Lopullinen vastaus (free translation to English could be something like Final Answer)

This one is a difficult book to describe. The plot is somewhat similar as in DaVinci-Code (yet again), but this has to do with Albert Einstein and the mysteries he left behind. The main character is Javier who has been offered a lot of money if he finds out what Einsteins secrets were and if he writes a book about them. But things aren't as they seemed (are they ever?) and he ends up travelling across the world with a killer following each of his steps. 

This book is hard to describe because the athmosphere while i tried to read this was kind of off. I never really seemed to have time to read this. It was either five minutes in the bathroom or the same five just before going to sleep. So it didn't ever really kick in, but i didn't want to put it down because i found the plot facinating. Finally i was able to read it with out any pauses, and oh boy was i dissapointed?! The ending? I haven't read this pathetic ending in a long time! It's almost like the authors gave up with the story. It could have mounted up to anything and they chose some cheesy ending to it. I haven't felt this fooled for such a long time..

So, if you are looking for an adventurous novel with awesome turns and twistes in the plot - put the book down and step away from it. And go choose something else instead.

Anja Lampela: Pyry

If anything could go wrong, it definitely goes in this one.

Pinja is living in a relationship and she is pregnant. She is thinking that her relationship is happy and in the excact place where every working relationship should be, but she is quite wrong.

It's really hard to describe the book without giving too much away. Overall this book contains every single thing why i hate reading Finnish literature...

Deborah Rodriguez: the Kabul beauty school

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At one point i really enjoyed reading all these sort of true story books where people live in countries i couldn't even ever imagine to live in. I'm not sure though i "enjoyed" reading this one.

It's about a beauty school the writer helps to build in Kabul, Afganistan and about the students. It's really nice to hear the stories of the students as well, but because it's titled "The Kabul Beauty School" i kind of wished it would have told lot more stories about the actual beauty school-part and the customers, the everyday life overall within the school.

I do realise the world is so different over there and maybe the writer believed that she has to tell every awful story behind every woman, but i don't know, would have been nice to read little more about the fun stuff that happens around the school, within the school walls. Maybe this is just result of reading too many awful stories about women in these sort of countries, that for once i just wished for to have a little different view on the subject - when for the fact the title really allures you to think so.

Meg Gardiner: The dirty secrets club

Some rich and famous people are part of the Dirty Secrets Club. People gets killed and something. Honestly, i read the whole book with a thought but can't remember any details. One star.

Henrik Ibsen: A doll's house

Since about ten years ago i've always wanted to read this book. Now, looking back, what a waste. First of all, i hate reading plays, second the story wasn't even close what i thought it was and third the story was quite a yawn. Not really much more to say.

Annika Sjögren: Ei liikahda lehtikään

The book tells a story about 12 year old Sandra who went missing after selling cookies door-to-door. I kind of have a thing for missing persons and i am very intrigued of every story that has a missing person in it.. Eventhough i've read probably hundreds of crimenovels, rarely a book makes me sick. But this one definitely did.

The story is somewhat fine but in a way it was so disgusting and disturbing that i find it hard to give more than a one star..

Ian Rankin: Knots and crosses

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A group of friends of mine recommended this book to me because they thought the bookseries is similar to all the great Swedish crimenovelists (Anne Holt, Henning Mankell etc.) but this one didn't really do much for me.

Considering that this is the first book of the John Rebus-story, i would have assumed that you'd learn much more about the maincharacter, but you really didn't.(if you don't consider his past to be enough) And to me that was pretty much the reason why i couldn't really crasp the book.. I really didn't feel any kind of connection to John and the whole story fell kind of short. I don't think i'm going to read the other books at all...

Joanne Harris: Blueeyedboy

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This book saddens me a lot. Once i really looked up to Joanne Harris, she had the amazing ability to write in a way that no-one did. But this one (as well some of her other recent books) fall short. The story is odd, you somehow get hooked on it on page 200, but you struggle to get there. Soon, you'll just wish you'd reach up the end already. Definitely this wasn't a pleasurable readingsesson. I haven't been this disapointed for a long time...