pickE Germany75, a fascinating period which leads to an enjoyable crime story in which karin muller, police officer with a troubled personal life is manipulated by a stasi officer to investigate the murder of a teenage girl escaping from West to east. I liked the paranoia, the characters and the history(afterword is interesting) so whilst a bit chaotic at the end i will definitely be rdg on but also rewatching The lives of others.
so-soAlthough an interesting storyline, I felt as if the characters weren‘t fully developed. You couldn‘t imagine how the characters were feeling through the description and the words, but rather, you were simply told how the characters felt. The storyline could have been better developed, as the setting and the timeline was an interesting time in history. It could have been used as a great murder/thriller, however, there needed to be less explanation.
This is definitely not a book I expected to start 2019 by reading (I did not even know it existed until a couple of hours ago), but it‘s good research for the manuscript I want to officially start and finish this year. #ColdWar #EastBerlin #PeterMillar
