'The trap' by Melanie Raabe

Hello!

So I just finished the first book on my list! 
And now to figure out a way to review it without giving away spoilers...

First thing you need to know about me is that if I really like a book, I will read it multiple times. So if I don't do that, it says a lot. 

I don't plan on reading this one again. 
Don't get me wrong, I did like it, but it's just not my usual genre and I didn't love is as much as I wished I did. 
First of all, I didn't like the way it was written. A lot of short sentences (I hope that wasn't because of the uncorrected version I have) that made it almost too simple. Maybe that's because I'm used to reading in English, and reading Dutch is now too 'easy', but I don't think so. 
Second, it's a thriller (kind of anyway) and that means that once you know the plot, it ruins the book for any future reading you might want to do. The thrill is gone if you know what's gonna happen and who did it. 
Third, for a thriller, it wasn't very 'thrilling'. 80 pages before the end, I knew for sure who had done it, I just lacked a few whys. Maybe that was the point of the author, I don't know.

I did, however, like the little chapters in between the real ones, that showed you what happens in the book she's writing. I liked that story within the story, that resembles the real one so much, just not completely. It tells you more about the backstory of the characters, without saying it explicitly. 
And I liked the way she portrayed the murderer. It wasn't just a one dimensional character, and at one point, I almost felt sorry for them. 
There were also a few little plot twists that I didn't see coming, and it was nice to be surprised. At one point I even reached the stage where you just need to read until it's over. And that's exactly what I did :)

So my overall rating for this one: 3.5/5
Have you read 'The trap'? What did you think of it? And if you haven't read it, does this make you wanna read it? Tell me in the comments below! 

Next up: The book thief by Markus Zusak. 

First book on my list...

The first book I'm gonna read is The Trap by Melanie Raabe. She's a German author, and the original title of her book is Die Falle. I'm gonna read this book in Dutch and apparently I bought a uncorrected copy that was not meant for sale? No idea how that happened... I hope nothing really changed in the final copy of the book. 

The blurb is as follows:

I know you killed my sister. I wrote this book for you.

Twelve years ago, Linda’s sister Anna was murdered. Her killer was never caught, but Linda saw his face. Now, all these years on, she’s just seen him again. On TV.

He has become a well-known reporter, and Linda—a famous novelist and infamous recluse—knows no one will believe her if she accuses him.

But she has a plan: she writes a thriller about a woman who is murdered, her killer never caught.

When the book is published, she agrees to give just one interview.

At home.

To the one person who knows more about the case than she does.

So obviously this is a thriller, and I hope I'll survive, as I'm not that good with scary stuff. I'll keep you posted! 

PS: I am a fast reader, but as I'm studying at university and doing my internship, it is possible it takes a while to read. I hope that's okay!

 

Hello!

I’ve been a book lover practically ever since I could read. And since then, I’ve also been buying and ‘collecting’ them. Maybe not when I was 6 or 7, because that was when I still went to the library every week to get my 5 books and 5 comics and didn’t buy them yet. But as soon as I could buy and/or receive books as gifts, I have kept basically all of them. It also means that as I grew older, I started buying more books myself, but also got less time to read them all because of homework and other things to keep me busy. And now there’s this pile of books scattered around my room, that I haven’t had time to read yet.

This bothers me quite a lot, because I don’t just want them to be a waste of money and I think that there are some pretty good books in there. As I am a bit lazy sometimes and need encouragement to stop reading fanfiction and start reading the books I still have, I thought I would start some kind of blog about it, where I could document my progress and leave reviews as well. Hopefully this will motivate me to keep on reading.

Little warning: English is not my mother tongue, as you might have noticed already. Please feel free to correct my grammar or spelling in the comments. That means that not all books I read will be in English. I will try to find the English versions of the book covers and titles to post next to them however, so you can at least try to find them if my review sounds promising enough for you to want to read them. 
The books I'll read will probably be a mix of young adult and fiction.