A review by snowdrowsey
The Other Side of Silence by Philip Kerr

3.0

I checked out this book because Somerset Maugham was a character in it. This isn't the first book in this series so that's different thing for me when reading books from a series. When the book started out I thought the main character was okay, but as I got more into the story I felt that I was waiting for Maugham to appear. I don't think that's a good sign in a book. He did show up, right when I started wondering when this would happen. But the reader shouldn't think that. The book did have it's slow point in it which I didn't enjoy, but then took a sharp left with the story and became weird and bizarre. After reading how the character has all this stuff happen to him and kills his nemesis, it was surprising that at the end he just goes back to his job a hotel concierge. Reading that bit, made me want to read the next book, because I found that just so completely unbelievable. I feel also that I should read the first book in this series to see how the character ends up getting himself into all this stuff, like working for the Nazis.