Alex Rovira and Francesc Miralles: La última respuesta

 

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.

Jennifer Lee Carrell: Interred with their bones

 

Kate Stanley is directing Hamlet in London where her old colleague wants to meet her and let her in to a secret that she is carrying. The secret is about William Shakespear but before Kate is let on into it her  colleague Roz gets killed and the theathre where Hamlet was supposed to be playd gets burned. 

From there starts the adventure that takes Kate to question was Shakespear really someone a lot of us assume he was, or was he a conspiracy that others made up. Whatever he/it is, it takes Kate to a place that is extremely dangerous and it'll make her doubt who she can trust. 

The book studies a lot of the written word that Shakespear has written - i found it at times a bit annoying because i've never been interested in the plays he has written. But overall the writer managed to include somewhat similar storyline of DaVinci Code into the book so that the story carried through and you really wanted to know what is really going on.

Michael White: The medici secret

This was the second Michael White book i read and unfortunately i didn't like this one as much as i did the Equinox.

Yes, it's about secret societies and yes it travels in various times in history, yes the story is well-consisted but yet it just wasn't as interesting as the other one.

Iris Johansen: Body of lies

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I loaned this book because i knew it had some sort of a secret society in it. The secret society was called Kabal and the members were all somehow involved in the political life of the USA. The secret society didn't seem as secret as it did in evil and disgusting. The story didn't really circle around the society that much, just around couple of people.In that way this was a little let down.

Also the number of peoples names got really overwhelming after just few pages. Somehow it was just really hard to follow the overall story when you really didn't have a clue who a person was because at one point he was mentioned by his first name, next by the lastname. Overall, the story of Eve and Bonnie saved it a little bit, so therefore 2 stars.

Tom Knox: The Genesis secret

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Rob Luttrell is a journalist who travels around the world to dangerous places when chasing a story for the Times-magazine. His editor wants him to go Kurdistan because some German archeologist has found a buried temple Göbekli Tepe and thinks there is a story behind it. There really is a story and it will bring whole Robs life, including her dotter in London, into danger.

At the same time when all this is happening to Rob, Scotland Yard is battling with mysterious murders that in the end might have something to do with the temple and a cult that's believed it's satanistic.

After you finish each chapter you just feel to urge to keep it going. The murders are disgusting and vile but overall the story is very interesting that you kind of look over the evil things and just keep reading.

Cecelia Ahern: The book of tomorrow

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Tamara Goodwins dad commits suicide and therefore she and her mother has to move from Dublin to stay with relatives in Kilsaney. Her mother is devastated and seems tired all the time. Her relatives does everything to keep her and her mother apart, so she starts to wonder if there is something most definitely wrong.

After meeting Marcus, the person who drives librarybus she gets her hands on a book that is locked. After getting the book opened, she realises that the pages are empty until suddenly it's filled with her own writing. Writing tells the story of tomorrow and now she has the chance to follow the leads her "diary" tells her to do, or follow her own path forgetting the diarys advices.

The first hundred or so pages wasn't that addicting to me but as the story got deeper, the more hooked i was. I'm glad that she found the empty book, i'm not sure how her and her mothers life would have ended without it.

Mikkel Birkegaard: Libri di luca

This book contains such mystery that i was very interested for the whole book and i read it in one night. The only thing i had problem with was the (kind of) forced lovestory. Without it i would have given 5 stars for the book.

Audrey Niffenegger: Her fearful symmetry

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I think the book is a very good combination of sisterhood and loneliness. These two twins are very adorable and the story behind their mother and her twinsister is very surprising. Magical story that makes you mad.

Katherine Neville: The Eight

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I'd recommend this book to anyone who enjoyed Dan Browns books. This has a similar storyline - she didn't copy him, this was written in the 1970s! And... Just a hint for someone who wonders/is scared: you don't have to know anything about chess to be able to follow the books storyline ;) Truly amazing storytelling!

Katy Gardner: Losing Gemma

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This is a book i've read over and over. It doesn't matter that i know how it ends i always tend to find something more out of it. I'm not sure if it's a bad or a good thing, but the couple of first pages already proves me to never go to India. People like Esther and Gemma go there to find themselves, but people like me either stay home or go somewhere where they don't have to think so much...