Bu noktadan sonra ise bütün hikaye tamamen tersine doğru akıyor. Bir kolda çocukluğa dair anılar akarken, diğer kolda da günümüzde cenaze töreni öncesinde geriye akış devam ediyor. Elinizde devamlı olarak sonuçlar veriliyor ama o sonuçların başlangıcına dair hiçbir fikriniz olmadan birilerine kızarak, bazı ilişkileri anlamlandıramayarak okuyorsunuz. Zaten sonucu bildiğiniz rahatlığıyla okurken yazar sonda sizi bir kez daha şok etmeyi başarıyor. It's James Herbert but not as I know him - all the ingredients are here for a classic slice of pulpy hokum, but ol' James neglects the horror in a big way. There's a ludicrous mystery that reminds me of the original Friday the 13th in how it cheats the audience, and not a lot of exciting incident.

The clues are all there but it’s very subtle - furtive glances, half heard conversations, fleeting memories etc and we gradually join the dots, along with the main characters. It’s all small signs and ciphers that if you’re clever enough you’ll spot (I of course came nowhere close!) Whilst rounding up SS leaders, he played a critical role in identifying and bringing to justice his greatest tormentor, the Butcher of Plaszow, Amon Göth, played by Ralph Fiennes in Schindler's List. He then committed his life to helping the orphaned children of the Holocaust rebuild their lives. Weak, cardboard characters and dialogue, and a very bizarre climax to the story that left me hugely disappointed. The authorities bring out big guns: Detective Pendlebury starts working with local police and as an outsider she can get more objective and fresher look to the things occurring in this small coastal town which help her connect with Bronte’s murder with three deaths from the past. The premise for the story is a promising one, but it's poorly executed and somewhat muddled and confusing. Deceased aircraft passengers become killers for reasons that are not entirely convincing or properly explained, and the same applies to much of the story.Tre morti tragiche e violente nello stesso giorno. In molti nel paese anche dodici anni dopo portano il lutto. Nessuno riesce a dimenticare. At only sixteen years old, Josef Lewkowicz became a number, prisoner 85314. Following the Nazi invasion of Poland, he and his father were separated from their family and herded to the Kraków-Plaszów concentration camp. Forced to carry out hard labour in brutal conditions, and to live under the constant threat of extreme violence and sudden death, before the war was over Josef would witness the unique horrors of six of the most notorious Nazi concentration camps, including Auschwitz, Mauthausen and Ebensee. One morning in Los Angeles, Nate Overbay—a divorced former solider suffering from PTSD and slowly dying from ALS — goes to an eleventh-floor bank, climbs out of the bathroom window onto the ledge, and gets ready to end it all. But as he's steeling himself, a crew of robbers bursts into the bank and begins to viciously shoot employees and customers. With nothing to lose, Nate confronts the robbers, taking them out one-by-one. The last man standing leaves Nate with a cryptic warning.

I never really liked any of the characters, and it all felt complicated for the sake of complication. There were so many secrets that didn't need to be secrets. Because of this, it also feels like there was a lot that was never properly explained. Het zijn losse hoofdstukken die je zelf aan elkaar moet rijgen om het verhaal over een disfunctioneel gezin te compleet krijgen omdat ze niet in tijdsvolgorde staan. Melancholiek. Mooi geschreven. Overall though, this is well worth reading. The quality of the writing is good, there are some original turns of phrase, it’s an emotional rollercoaster novel and one I’m unlikely to forget. The Survivor is one of those very rare horror novels that’s not only incredibly readable, but actually legit spooky. There are a couple of chapters here (specifically chapter 11 and chapter 19) that are flat out some of the creepiest moment in a novel I’ve read in a long time. I won’t say it’s nightmare inducing by any means, but the way Herbert writes and the way he ties things into the story is quite good.A friend of mine swears by reading and listening to a book simultaneously. This is the first time I’ve done it. I found it a very enjoyable experience, allowing me to keep one story going. And this was a story I wanted to keep going.