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Turn your mobile device into a remote control for your Signia/Siemens hearing aids! The app enhances...

Secrets of the Spitfire: The Story of Beverley Shenstone, the Man Who Perfected the Elliptical Wing

Lance Cole

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This book tells the tale of the brilliant aerodynamicist Beverley Shenstone MASc, HonFRAes,...

I Knew Hitler: The Lost Testimony by a Survivor from the Night of the Long Knives

Bob Carruthers and Kurt G. W. Ludecke

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First published in 1938 "I Knew Hitler" is the missing link in the literary trail which traces the...

Top railway journeys of the world

Tom Savio

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This beautifully illustrated and fully updated book features 26 of the world's greatest railway...

The Soviet Gulag: Evidence, Interpretation and Comparison

Michael David-Fox

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Before the collapse of the Soviet Union and the subsequent archival revolution, Aleksandr...

If Hitler Comes: A Cautionary Tale

Christopher Serpell and Douglas Brown

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This novel was first published by Faber in August 1940 under the title, "The Loss of Eden". It was...

BookInspector (124 KP) rated Dear Child in Books

Sep 24, 2020 (Updated Oct 8, 2020)

Dear Child

Romy Hausmann | 2020 | Crime, Philosophy, Psychology & Social Sciences, Thriller

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This novel is told from multiple perspectives, and we have three people who are sharing their sides of the story. First of all, it is a woman, who ran away from the cabin. She is sharing her story during the time inside, as well as how she is coping now. She is a really disturbed woman, who went through a lot, and I found her story very engrossing and absorbing. The second character is Hannah, one of the children, that were kept in that cabin. She is on the spectrum of Autism, and she sees her life through a completely different perspective than the woman that was held captive. Hannah is a perfectionist, and the cabin with all the rules imposed by the captor are her norms, so she finds very hard to open up about her life, but when she does, I could not stop reading her parts. The last character would be Matthias, Lena’s father. For me he was the least interesting character of all, I could not understand his role in all this story, but he does have few tricks up his sleeve.

The narrative of this book is pure beauty. It has everything that my thriller loving heart could wish for, the twists and turns left me gobsmacked on many occasions, the suspense was very well placed and kept developing throughout the pages, and I was so absorbed in this novel, that the pages just flew by. The topics discussed in this novel were an obsession, controlling personalities, blind fatherly love, denial, post-traumatic disorder and other mental illnesses, and many more.

The book was set in Germany, and I was very intrigued by the way German police were working. I really liked the writing style of this book, we have the very intense parts with Hannah and the woman in the cabin, as well as calmer ones with Matthias, that created the perfect balance. The chapters are short, so the book was easy to read for me. The ending was amazing and I really enjoyed how this book ended, it did answer my questions and rounded this story very well. I would like to mention, that this book has plenty of violent and disturbing parts, so it might not be very suitable to sensitive readers.