The Enigma of Room 622: The devilish new thriller from the master of the plot twist

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Macaire's father was impressed by Lev and offered him a position at the bank -- despite Lev having no professional training or higher education.

The Enigma of Room 622 - Joël Dicker - Complete Review The Enigma of Room 622 - Joël Dicker - Complete Review

At its core, The Enigma of Room 622 is adolescent, a YA mystery that thinks big but in a childish way -- down to Macaire using lemon juice as invisible ink (yes, it works, but ...).

Aside from the affair, espionage and corporate politics, embezzlement has been going on at the bank. All the angles are there to set up a murder mystery, but who had the most likely motive? For a large part of the story we are kept in the dark about the murder victim’s identity so we are left wondering not just who the killer was, but who was killed. It’s an interesting device. No me salté páginas porque nunca hago eso, pero creo que sobraban muchas. Cuando por fin llegamos a los grandes descubrimientos, no me convencieron. Por muchas explicaciones que dé el autor, yo tengo mis dudas sobre la capacidad de alguien para ser tan camaleónico… o más bien, para hacerlo como él dice sin que se note… Y no diré nada más. The characters are interesting, likable, and a bit mysterious. But, why not? It’s a mystery, right? Adoro este tipo de livros onde ocorrem crimes em quartos de hotéis numa vila pequena e “afastada” do mundo e num inverno.

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The prose is horrible as well and the level of a high school student. The writer has such a nice opinion if himself it's comical. Es que no sé ni qué opinar. Aparte de saltos temporales a toneladas para analizar cada paso que han dado en sus vidas Lev, Macaire y Anastasia, no hay mucho más. Por si esto fuera poco, ninguno de estos 3 tiene profundidad ni evolución: It does have its charms, once you get what it's going for it can be a very nice, breezy change of pace from the dreary bleakness in so much crime fiction. I sighted more reading this book than I did reading the incomprehensible assembly instructions of my Ikea BRIMNES bed. All these year's Macaire has been dealing with a single person, his handler, Wagner -- and, yes, if: "The whole business had the air of a spy novel", Macaire is fully on board and doesn't question the whole very odd set up.Macaire understands that: "It had all begun to unravel fifteen years earlier", when his grandfather died and the presidency went to his father -- and when both Lev and Anastasia's paths first crossed with each other and with him. Sí, ya me he dado cuenta que no ha querido escribir una novela negra, sino más bien una novela de suspense inglés, más ligera, pero no hacía falta hacerlo de un modo tan chabacano, con ese tono como de novelita barata donde todo vale. Over the years, Macaire has also been regularly seeing a psychoanalyst, Dr. Kazan -- though apparently never asking himself whether it's wise to rely on a professional who was recommended to him by Lev ...... Lev es el hombre al que todo se le da bien y que consigue ganarse rápidamente el aprecio de cualquiera.