So you need a lot of twists and bumps, and to achieve this he splits the branches of his character’s lives so much that the tips reach the stratosphere. A gala dinner is held to announce the bank’s new president following the passing of the elderly Abel Ebezner. I imagine the crushing weight of having to ‘ redo the trick now’ has devastating effects not only on an author’s motivation, but also on his or her creativity. He is recuperating at the Hotel de Verbier after two traumatic experiences – the recent death of Bernard and breaking up with his girlfriend, Sloane. But it would mean abandoning the recipe he has now used so much and which brought him this level of success to risk something he might fail at.

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El autor se introduce en la historia relatándonos sus supuestas pesquisas para resolver el misterio principal mientras va escribiendo la propia historia, aprovechando para homenajear a Bernard de Fallois, su editor, fallecido a principios de 2018. Unfortunately for him, an old murder rearing its head all but thwarts his plan to finally get some much-needed peace and quiet. Maybe, but the sasquatches whom the volcano displaced contributed to the statistics, too, if only out of self-defense.There are some fairly good twists towards the end although you have to wait a long time for them but at least they are unpredictable. But I found a somewhat rehashed recipe that, although Dicker introduces an interesting narrative vehicle at the beginning of this story, narrowly fails to provide that which long-time fans have been hankering for : innovation. Many of the characters bite their tongue when they really should be more open -- most notably Anastasia -- and of course Macaire sits on that big secret of working so long as a secret agent. Sorprendente e inesperado, no es una historia con buenos y malos, cada uno tiene sus luces y sus sombras, es una historia que habla de bondad, de amor, de bajos instintos, de egoismo, de dinero.

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We place a focus on finding the great works which might be overshadowed by their more popular peers. It doesn’t take them very long to realize they’ve actually stumbled into a long and storied tale, one equal-parts frightening and intriguing. Porque no dejan de seguirnos, bailan y brillan en la oscuridad de la noche justo encima de nuestras cabezas”.As he tells Scarlett Leonas, a beautiful Englishwoman staying at the hotel on her own, the magic of his craft is that “any fact, when presented as a series of questions, opens the door to a novel. They speak to many of those involved, and slowly put together the picture of what happened the night of the murder.

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If you’re not familiar with author Joël Dicker, it’s not surprising as his books are written in French and only a few have been translated to English so far. However, I think some of the issues are due to a poor translation which you can’t blame the author for. Along the way the reader is strung along in a long, complex narrative involving Switzerland’s elite, family intrigues and long-hidden secrets.Aparte de las actitudes aniñadas y de estar rizando el rizo con lo de la presidencia del banco y el triángulo amoroso, hay que tragarse descubrimientos surrealistas y una narración monótona que no ayuda a avanzar. No es por nada, pero lo del asesinato es que era decorativo, a mí es que nunca llegó a importarme porque lo que más peso parecía tener era si Anastasia dejaba a Macaire, su marido, para fugarse con Lev, su amor de juventud. The presidency has always been handed down in the family, and Macaire expects to be named president -- but in those days leading up to the announcement he learns that some people seem to have other plans. There are long sections where Joël as narrator completely disappears and instead we find ourselves in the midst of bank employee melodrama. No voy a negar que hace falta un poco de práctica y concentración para entender quiénes son los personajes y qué hacían en cada uno de los momentos de la historia, sobre todo cuando se cambia la perspectiva del presente a flashbacks o viceversa.

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I just wished I didn’t have to read it an egocentric story, with a far-fetched ending that gave me the same bitter taste as the Lost tv show ending. Joel, living in Geneva (a word you’ll read about a million times more) is in between writing books and stuck.A few days prior to the murder Macaire Ebezner is in Madrid and anxious to get home to Geneva where the expectation is that he will be named president of Ebezner bank except he isn’t, as Lev Levovitch is, who is having an affair with Macaire’s Anastasia. Dicker juega con nosotros en todo momento, con una trama muy bien trabajada, manteniéndonos en vilo con cada giro de la historia que no te esperas, hasta la última página. A volcanic eruption is quite another, for, as the journalist who does a framing voice-over narration for Brooks’ latest puts it, when Mount Rainier popped its cork, “it was the psychological aspect, the hyperbole-fueled hysteria that had ended up killing the most people.