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3.87 AVERAGE
3.87 AVERAGE
dark
mysterious
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
dark
emotional
sad
tense
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
challenging
dark
informative
mysterious
sad
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
adventurous
challenging
dark
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
mysterious
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
My first 2025 read was Fatherland by Robert Harris. This was recommended by a gentleman I work with after we talked about the alternate reality TV series and book The Man in the High Castle. If you are not familiar, both stories follow an alternative history where Germany wins World War 2. In this novel the main character is a policeman investigating a murder in Berlin. He finds out that the murdered man was a part of a conference where all those in attendance have been killed over time. During the hunt to find the murderer he places himself in a position of trouble with the German Government.
This book scratches a couple of itches for me: Alternate WW2 history and murder mystery. I enjoyed the story and was intrigued by how it ended. It’s hard to discuss some of the interesting side notes (Where the Jews fit in, etc.) of the story as it would give too much away. Overall, I would recommend reading this if you like history, especially alternate history, murder mysteries, with some romance mixed in.
Even though I have read many horrors before, this one is without a doubt the most terryfying book I have every read.
A modern classic of that most odd genre the counterfactual history. This is something of a curate's egg, it's portrait of a lasting Nazi state is well rendered, and the final chapters are incredibly engaging, and the real accounts of the Holocaust that the characters discover as part of the plot never lose their power to shock. However elements of the police procedural plot do drag somewhat in the middle and serve only to add to the book's central conceit, but its central message (as I read it), that there is no evil that we will not be willing to deal with is well made (and feels particularly pertinent as we remember the life of Henry Kissinger).
adventurous
mysterious
reflective
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
Complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
dark
mysterious
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No