Jen N. reviewed on 5/14/2017 + 56 more book reviews

This book tells two stories simultaneously - one from the 1930-40s and the other in the 1990s - in the end they tie (sorta) together. I found this book very difficult to stay the course, I was having to force myself to keep reading. It frequently switches back and forth from the 90s to 40s at whim and a lot of it doesn't have anything to do with the crime at hand of a murder of young teen girl found on the beach. Also there is a tremendous amount of sexual violence that didn't seem to be needed in telling the story, we got it they are bad guys! But the author repeatedly and I do mean repeatedly treated the females in his story as morons, idiots, less than, willing, silly fools whose whole existence is at the mercy of men and that they hold no control over their environment or destiny or how they respond to their victimization.

Spoiler Alert!

The book starts with a young teen girls murder and sex assault. The reader is introduced to a Portuguese Murder Detective and his family/friends as he and his new partner investigate the crime. It switches to a German man who is forced (somewhat)to join the Nazis and find resources of wolfram using stolen gold. (wolfram is used to make train hitches and weapons) The author spends ALOT of time with the German portion of the story but very little of it actually has to do with the 90s murder. The author makes a lot of links and ties - very 6 degrees of Kevin Bacon or butterfly wings lead to hurricanes. It frankly got ridiculous. Don't expect the guilty to see their due as most suffered much less then their victims.

I wanted to love this book but in the end I would barely recommend this book. You have to really be bored and in dire need of a mystery to read.

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