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kfitzpatrick2 's review for:
City of Thieves
by David Benioff
This is one of those books that clearly reads "novel" on the cover then the first page insists that it is indeed nonfiction. David Benioff (brilliant show-runner of Game of Thrones) turns a series of story-telling sessions with his grandfather into this pretty fantastical reinterpretation of the siege of Leningrad. The astonishing details of the street level citizens during this abysmal time is the only thing that drove me through the journey of the two stock buddy-cop-movie protagonists. The narrator is Lev Beniov, the author's supposed grandfather, who is thrown in jail only to be reprieved by a high-ranking general in order to retrieve a dozen eggs intended for his daughter's wedding cake in a country that has consumed all of its chickens long ago. It's a nice premise, but a little too perfect (especially when nearly every scene ends with a near Indiana Jones caliber hat-swiping escape sequence). David Benioff is a pretty established screenwriter, and this would've made a much more fitting movie than a "novel."