Done reading these books:
67. Das Rad der Zeit 2 - Die Jagd beginnt (The Great Hunt), Robert Jordan, 784 pages
68. Drei Tage, zwei Frauen, ein Affe und der Sinn des Lebens, Karolien Notebaert, 168 pages
69. The Weekend Away, Miranda Smith, 280 pages
70. Das Spiel der Anderen, Carlo Feber, 416 pages
71. Seht mich an (Look at Me), Anita Brookner, 288 pages
72. Skorpion, Matt Basanisi + Gerd Schneider, 416 pages
73. Prophezeiungen für Jedermann, Nicole Gozdek, 400 pages
74. Corpus Delicti (The Method), Juli Zeh, 272 pages
75. Das Objekt, Joshua Tree, 332 pages
76. Gesichter (The Faces), Tove Ditlevsen, 160 pages
77. Hexenjäger, Max Seeck, 448 pages
78. Das Rad der Zeit 3 - Die Rückkehr des Drachen (The Dragon Reborn), Robert Jordan, 768 pages
79. Diablo: Book of Lorath, Matthew J. Kirby, 176 pages
The Great Hunt + The Dragon Reborn:
2nd and third book of the Wheel of Time series. Without many spoilers, I found book 2 to set things up too quickly for one character and the whole book overall more middling than the first. The Dragon Reborn with more emphasis on other characters was a great read, on the other side.
Drei Tage, zwei Frauen, ein Affe und der Sinn des Lebens:
Marie and her mother do some hiking in Ireland and discuss basic philospohy, how to influence your thoughts positively and the basics of meditation and mindfulness.
Solid book. The ideas here are explained well but also so basic that most readers that don't live under a rock probably heard of them already. Some of the dialogue between the mother and daughter, allegedly a loving relationship, also legit felt like AI was tasked with writing emphatic dialogue, the result being robotic in some places.
The Weekend Away:
Samanthas twin sister is dead - after seemingly killing herself, one day after sending Samantha a message that she needs her now. Samantha doesn't believe that her sister would kill herself and her suspicions rise when she finds her sisters diary, revealing secrets of her friends that she started a company with. Even though the last pages have been ripped out, there is enough left for Samantha to investigate - and the perfect opportunity arrives when she is invited to join the group of friends to spend a weekend in a lodge in the wintery mountains. She must be careful, as she believes alteast one of them to be involved with her sisters death.
Great book. Read in english.
Das Spiel der Anderen:
Malu, Sanctus and Habibi share a common belief that the global banking system is morally bankrupt (haha!) and together they plan to kidnap two people of the higher management of a bank. Their plans are ruined when on the day of the mission, their planned second victim is found dead in a burned down car - meaning that someone knew of their plans and has highjacked it for their own purposes. They still go through with the kidnapping and find themselves juggling between staying away from the police while also finding out who is behind the murder.
Solid book.
Look at Me:
Frances Hinton lives a sheltered life working for a library, that is until she meets the glorious couple Nick and Alix, a paring so divine and with no flaws, completely awing her away and she feels blessed when the couple is interested in picking her up as a friend. France hopes that some of their greatness and great social behaviour will get imprinted on her too but as her life revolves more and more around them, slowly the cracks of that perfect image she made up of them increase in number, revaling a profound feel of loneliness lingering in her soul.
Great book about loneliness.
Skorpion:
A priest is shot dead in Palermo, a pilot commits suicide in Zurich and three tons of cocaine are found in Antwerpen - three events that seem unconnected at first sight but somehow, the former banker Nauman has connections to all these cases and investigator David Keller tries everything to unravel this mess.
Mid book. Guess what behind everything is a secret agency and then another and then another and so on and so forth, That grew boring after 200 pages but that's only halfway for a thriller that is enterily too formulaic. Atleast the real backround that the events of the book are based on seem well researched.
Prophezeiungen für Jedermann:
In this world, everyone has to fulfill a prophecy that is revealed to them by the Oracle. As they are labelled as "prophecies for everyone" most of them are easy tasks like helping out some homeless people, etc. Zacharias prophecy seems easy at first too - but that quickly turns out to be more complicated and as he tries to fulfill his own prophecy, the people around the world struggle more and more with theirs and it seems like a big change is coming.
Good book. The main character is struck with bad luck constantly which makes the book a bit of a tough read. Ending seems to set things up for potential sequels but is still a worthwile conclussion to the story. Not available in english.
The Method:
Mia Holl is brought before a judge for a multitude of offenses: for loving her brother - who was proven to be guilty by undeniable facts - too much, for thinking too freely and for taking not enough care of her health in a society where maximising everyones health has become the number one rule. As she decides to stay uncooperative, she gets brought before a judge more times, further and further to be made an example of an unruly person and how such behavior is seens as society-eroding.
Decent book. Dialogue reads like a theatre play which makes everything feel a bit unnatural, which might be intented but is just making it tough to emphazise with the characters.
Das Objekt:
One day Melody Adams, who works for NASA, discovers a strange object nereby Pluto - and further inspection of the object seems to indicate that it is not a natural object as it portrays behaviour that asteroids don't. As such, a space mission to meet up with that object is planned but as Earth is going through a variety of cricises, even the space mission is getting affected by this. Can the mission succeed? And what will the team find?
Great book. Unlike many other books labelled as Hard Science, this one also manages to have a good plot without an overbearing amount of scientific details. Sadly not available in english.
The Faces:
Kopenhagen, 1968: Lisa Mundus is a succesful author and also losing her mind, believing to hear voices and seeing faces in places where they shouldn't be. After some back and fourth, she agrees to go to a mental hospital and meets an unforseen conflict: the desire of recovering versus the feeling of freedom that the madness and staying in the hospital invokes in her.
Good book. I expected a slower descent into madness but nah, main characters is crazy right off the hook. Outside of that, I enjoyed this.
Hexenjäger:
A murderer seems to draw inspirations from the books of a famous crime book author. Jessica Niemi and her team can't get a hold of the killer(s) and it seems like any evidence they find is just deliberately left at the crime scene.
Kinda bad book. Basically worse version of Requiem which I read earlier this year. Interesting sidestory but not connected to the main case, main case goes nowhere, unclear motivations and weak ending only to set up future books but with one-dimensional characters all around, I'll skip the rest.
Diablo: Book of Lorath:
Book 4 of the Diablo lore books. This one mainly focuses on artifacts, including some legendaries from the games. Overall a nice addition to the series, though a tad weaker than the first three. Got this one recently, after I heard that a fifth book will relase in October.
