{Review} The Beginning @_JonasWinner

Book Description

Publication Date: August 27, 2013

Long after the Iron Curtain has crumbled, an invisible wall remains between the good citizens of Berlin and those who dwell in the city’s dark underbelly. And one family—the Bentheims—straddles the line between good and evil.
The family has graciously taken in Till Anschütz, a young orphan on the run, and he quickly befriends his new brother, twelve-year-old Max. Together, the boys explore the office where their cold, distant father, Xavier Bentheim, writes his novels. They discover a secret door, an underground lair, gruesome photographs, bizarre films, and horrifying scenes. Is this shadowy world the reason Xavier’s behavior has taken a turn for the vicious—and will they ever be able to escape what they’ve seen?
Berlin Police Inspector Konstantin Butz discovers the mutilated corpse of a woman; beside her lies a power drill freshly wrenched from her stomach. This latest in a series of related murders launches Butz on an obsessive search for the killer, but the key could lie hidden with his own girlfriend…Claire Bentheim.

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Biography

Jonas Winner has worked as a television reporter and screenwriter for all major German networks. When he started publishing his BERLIN GOTHIC series in 2011, it immediately became a huge success and cult hit.

He has been praised by international media as "Germany's e-book-star" (B.Z.), "bestseller king" (buchreport), and "pioneer turned star" (Basler Zeitung). His 7-part BERLIN GOTHIC thriller series has sold more than 100,000 e-books in 10 month alone, more than any other German author via amazon.de before. The movie rights to the series have been optioned by German/US production company Gruppe 5.

Jonas Winner holds a Ph.D. in philosophy and has been educated in Rome, Princeton and Paris. He currently resides in Berlin, where he works for German TV (ZDF) and on his fifth novel.

This one grabbed my attention via Night Owl Reviews.  And I am sad to say that it fell so short that I really dont even want to review it.  The cover and story is what grabbed me.  But after reading it you find that there is no story.  This is a first of 7 books to come and it is deff. written that way.  By the end of this book you have met some characters, passed back and forth across a 12 year span of their lives, and had some great seances.  Nothing is revealed and nothing is resolved.  I dont know when the others are to be released but I do know that this book is not something that I would wait around for a year for.

"*I received a copy of this book for free to review, this in no way influenced my review, all opinions are 100% honest and my own."

Posted in: 1 Star, Adult, Review