The Enigma of Room 622: The devilish new thriller from the master of the plot twist

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Quizá con 200 páginas menos hubiese mejorado, porque la historia (aunque enrevesada) resulta interesante. The frustrations over the constantly withheld information -- especially since it is done so blatantly -- don't help either. The small board of the bank was to decide on who would succeed Abel -- whereby the board members themselves were ineligible. Scarletta Leonas, another guest at the hotel, discovers that the reason there’s no Room 622 is that an unsolved murder has occurred. She begins working with Joël as a sort of assistant and the two amateur sleuths attempt to establish the sequence of the events leading up to the weekend of the murder.

The Enigma of Room 622 by Joël Dicker, Robert Bononno

At its core, The Enigma of Room 622 is adolescent, a YA mystery that thinks big but in a childish way -- down to Macaire using lemon juice as invisible ink (yes, it works, but ...).Puzzled and intrigued by this occurrence, Joel befriends a fellow amateur sleuth Scarlett – another one of the hotel’s guests – and together they try to pierce the veil of the mysteriously-missing room. It doesn’t take them very long to realize they’ve actually stumbled into a long and storied tale, one equal-parts frightening and intriguing. As to what happened on that fateful day, and the identity of that corpse ... readers must wait a long, long while until those are revealed.

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Macaire es el tonto útil que es un buenazo y que da la impresión de que sería un fracasado si no hubiera nacido rico. Lo peor con él es que se quiere jugar a dar a entender que tiene un lado oscuro. En serio, es que parece incapaz de matar ni a una mosca. Da alguna sorpresilla, pero cuesta ver maldad en él.With this being said, I do see how some people might think the book to be a little too long for its own good. If you’re the kind of person who just wants to see the resolution dropped into their lap as fast as possible, then you’re probably going to struggle with certain segments which only feel like they raise more questions rather than provide solutions. I personally love this approach, but to each their own. Adoro este tipo de livros onde ocorrem crimes em quartos de hotéis numa vila pequena e “afastada” do mundo e num inverno. A tasty, if not always tasteful, tale of supernatural mayhem that fans of King and Crichton alike will enjoy.

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I try very hard to think of someone who would enjoy every book I read and review. But I cannot recommend this book to anyone--it's just bad. The translation is clunky, the characters are flat, it’s pretty sexist, and the plot... I read a lot of science fiction. I have reviewed a lot of science fiction on this blog. I particularly enjoy science fiction with convoluted and ridiculous plots. This plot! I can only describe it as Dan Brown by way of Scooby Doo. It does not strain disbelief--this is a full and complete muscular tear. This requires season ending surgery. Now I might have been able to find it in my heart to forgive the ridiculous plot that would need multiple industrial forklifts to achieve suspension, but this ridiculous terrible book seemed to think it was clever. It took itself so seriously. It was trying to be about grief and trauma and not about the fact that the Scooby Doo writers would have turned it away for being too far fetched. Es que no sé ni qué opinar. Aparte de saltos temporales a toneladas para analizar cada paso que han dado en sus vidas Lev, Macaire y Anastasia, no hay mucho más. Por si esto fuera poco, ninguno de estos 3 tiene profundidad ni evolución: I sighted more reading this book than I did reading the incomprehensible assembly instructions of my Ikea BRIMNES bed. Já li outros livros do autor e, mal este saiu, quis logo ler. A capa fascinou-me pela sua beleza na simplicidade. Abandonado al 30%. Quizás debía haberle dado una oportunidad, pero la lectura se me hizo en extremo fastidiosa. No me creí a ninguno de los personajes, los diálogos poco naturales, las situaciones absurdas...., a veces me parecía que era una comedia.....I’ll admit it also helps that I found the premise itself to be quite clever and conducive to a long and winding murder mystery, one which in and of itself feels like a prolonged vacation, at least from my reader’s perspective. The events surrounding the room’s history are genuinely interesting and I found myself tightly hooked whenever Joel and Scarlett were uncovering some juicy new pieces of information, regardless of whether it brought me closer to the ultimate revelations. The Outlandish Hotel One night in December, a corpse is found in Room 622 of the Hotel Verbier, a luxury hotel in the Swiss Alps. A police investigation begins without definite end, and public interest wanes with the passage of time. I’ve just been on the choo-choo train to the land of disappointment especially as I really really enjoyed The Truth about the Harry Quebert Affair, The Baltimore Boys though it has to be said less so The Disappearance of Stephanie Mailer. Macaire, meanwhile, does not greatly impress with his bank-work -- and especially in the year leading up to the murder seems to have been neglecting many of his duties.