The Child
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3,8 • 5 Bewertungen
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- 3,49 €
Beschreibung des Verlags
My name is Simon. I'm 10 years old. I'm a serial killer.
Robert Stern, a successful defence lawyer, doesn't know what lies in store for him when he agrees to meet a new client in a derelict estate on the outskirts of Berlin. To his astonishment, the defendant is a ten-year-old boy - Simon - a fragile child with a chronic illness who insists that he was a murderer in a former life. Stern's surprise quickly turns to horror as he searches the cellar Simon has directed him to and discovers the skeletal remains of a man, the skull split with an axe - just as Simon told him he would.
But this is only the beginning, as Simon tells Stern where to find even more victims whose bodies have lain undisturbed for years. Suddenly, the present feels murderously dangerous as well...
The Child is a darkly twisting, page-turning thriller that will make your heart pound with adrenaline.
Kundenrezensionen
Awesome
ENG:
The book is very well written and the characters are developed in a way that you can relate to them and understand their feelings.
I didn't immediately warm to the story itself, as it all seemed very bizarre to me at first. In the course of reading the book, however, I got into the story and was able to sympathise with the protagonists. The book also deals with the sexual abuse of children and the trade of these (TW: if these are topics you don't get on well with, I would clearly advise against reading the book). This controversial topic still kept me very much occupied afterwards and, like the book in general, moved me a lot.
In summary, it is a very good book, but one that you have to engage with.
DE:
Das Buch ist sehr gut geschrieben und die Charaktere sind so herausgearbeitet, dass man einen Bezug zu diesen aufbauen und ihre Gefühle nachvollziehen kann.
Mit der Geschichte selbst bin ich nicht direkt warm geworden, da es mir anfangs alles sehr skurril erschien. Im Verlauf des Lesens bin ich dann aber in die Geschichte reingekommen und habe mit den Protagonisten geradezu mitgefiebert. Zudem geht es im Buch auch um den Sexuellen Missbrauch an Kindern und den Handel von diesen (TW: wenn dies Themen sind mit denen man nicht gut klar kommt, rate ich klar vom Buch ab). Dieses kontroverse Thema hat mich auch im Nachhinein noch sehr beschäftigt und mich, so wie das Buch im allgemeinen sehr bewegt.
Zusammenfassend ist es also ein sehr gutes Buch, auf welches man sich jedoch einlassen muss.