(Audiobook) I listen to dozens of books in my car and have been disappointed with some twists phoned or end too predictable, but this is the entire book that lacks originality and inventiveness. First, the entire book is peppered with descriptions, besides the fact they are unnecessary in setting of the story (sometimes even about characters unrelated to the story), are commonplace distressing. These descriptions, with more style (although flat and too descriptive vocabulary) and cunning, could have been lightened and the drive rally to the cause of the characters by stimulating his imagination. The narrative then is supposed to maintain a suspense but succeeded only horrify the reader: plays a character this, another says that ... but we do not know! Similarly, the survey is conducted in defiance of common sense, although we know pretty quickly that threatened the author must be at the center of investigations. Consequently, there is the salutary and totally expected intervention of character who will "help" the police, always quick to keep to himself his intuitions and deductions under threadbare pretexts. To top it all, we understand that the book at the origin of all this has been boned by Erika but she does not know it (!!!) and that his policeman husband judge the useful reading that at the end of the novel! Of course, we know absolutely no details of what eponymous book, The Mermaid, still leaving us on the roadside The last plot is based on a summary of the worst evils that characters can wear. The more one discovers the heart of the matter, the more we said, 'go, it's got to be a trick! ". Well no, it is also agreed that the fast and predictable fears, even if the tests to drown us into sentimentality or pathos-the details on pregnancy, wayward children, not to mention the serious and other diseases fatigues- large and unnecessary (see above) delay maturity to our greatest despair. The only parts that were seemed newsworthy to me those describing the youth of the author of The Mermaid, even if the event that initially binds the author and Alice could have been described with less cruelty, leaving the front reader imagine a part of the scene, which left no doubt as to its outcome. A word about the end: it is the great-horn! Note that the smaller parts of the chapters keep coming without knowing before several lines, which character is concerned, this is very unsettling. The audio does not really help these parties sometimes follow so quickly we do not understand that immediately changed character! I will end with a little comparison. I had to listen to a Fred Vargas and here: I passed a small sparkling largest sports will train a large sedan that is towing a caravan with the handbrake up!
