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Cain His Brother (1996)

Cain His Brother (1996)

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0804115079 (ISBN13: 9780804115070)
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ivy books

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Acabo de terminar el libro y debo decir que estoy muy sorprendida, aunque no del todo satisfecha. La razón puede ser que este es el primer libro que leo de Anne Perry, por lo que no tengo todo el contexto que necesitaba para entender el libro. Aunque sí lo disfruté.Anne Perry es una escritora talentosa, porque la lectura fue siempre fluida y mantuvo el misterio necesario para que no quisiera dejar de leer. Y no quiero culparla a ella, ni a la editorial, pero el único indicio de que sea una serie es que en la primera página dice que ha escrito varios libros protagonizados por Monk. Sé que es mi culpa, pero bueno. El libro tiene muchas referencias a asuntos pasados, no son necesarios para entender el libro en cuestión, pero parece que sí para comprender a fondo a los personajes.En fin, fuera de los problemas por mi ignorancia, es una trama muy completa. Trata sobre el caso que investiga Monk, el supuesto asesinato de un hombre a manos de su gemelo, y toma una línea extra, en la que Monk tiene problemas con una mujer. No sé si ella es un personaje recurrente, pero supondré que sí, y aquí regresa a causar problemas. También es de suponer que este hilo continúa en el próximo libro. Esto es sólo una motivación para comenzar a leer la serie como es debido. La caracterización estuvo muy bien realizada, deja ver mucho cuidado en sus personajes y el pasado que ha tenido con ellos. En cuanto a la trama, es de lectura sencilla, aunque con muchísimos detalles que ayudan a entrar en ambiente. En ocasiones yo me perdí, porque habla con mucha confianza de la zona y yo no la conozco. Me pasó lo mismo con los personajes, porque se relacionaban de maneras que yo no entendí, por no haber leído los libros anteriores. De nuevo, todos esos problemas son mi culpa por leer como loca.En resumen, un muy buen libro. No es muy denso y deja claro que hay más de donde vino este.

Anne Perry's books tend to be multi-faceted. On one side is the main plot, the mystery, while on another is a look at a certain aspect of life at the time, another shows the lot of women, another contains introspection on the part of the main characters and still another reveals the depth of the supporting cast.Here, the main plot is a devoted and kind husband who never returned from meeting his brother. His wife fears he is dead, and worse - that she'll never be able to prove it, and, being a woman, has no control or legal claim over any of her husband's property or money. She engages Monk to ascertain what has happened to Angus.At the same time, typhoid has broken out in Limestone, one of the poverty-striken areas of London; naturally Hester is amongst the few from the higher classes who reach out to do what they can. As she explains the true nature of poverty, the reader also joins Enid's startling realization of what this level of poverty really means: "The same [pan] for scrubbing the floor, for bathing the baby, for waste at night, and for cooking in." It's no wonder typhoid spreads, especially in these days before clean water was readily available and before sewer pipes were installed.Hester and Monk are, by now, both acutely aware of each other's fault. You might say overly aware, because they certainly seem to be trying to convince themselves of something, though his steadfast loyalty and Hester's quick thinking keep bringing them together to shore up the other. And then there is Drusilla...

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Dieses Buch war das letzte, was ich aus der Anne-Perry Weltbild-Sammlerreihe hatte, deshalb muss ich jetzt rückblickend mal allgemein ein paar Worte über ihr Bücher verlieren.Ich lese die Fälle gern, weil sie eigentlich immer spannend sind und mich am Ende meistens überraschen (obwohl mir bei "sein Bruder Kain" schon nach sehr kurzer Zeit klar war, was los ist), auch wenn sich die Handlung beim ein oder anderen Buch ein wenig künstlich in die Länge zieht, aber das ist nicht so schlimm, da kratzt Anne Perry gerade noch so die Kurve.Was aber gar nicht geht, und was mich bei jedem ihrer Bücher stört, ist die Art, wie sie Personen charakterisiert, die ist nämlich unfassbar plump. Jedes Mal, wenn eine neue Person in der Handlung auftaucht, wird sie gleich mit allen ihren Charaktereigenschaften beschrieben, die die Hauptakteure (William Monk/Hester Latterly/ Thomas & Charlotte Pitt) ihnen faszinierenderweise auch immer direkt an den Gesichtszügen ablesen können, wenn sie sie treffen. Es gibt nur zwei Arten von Personen: Arrogante Oberschicht-Futzis oder Oberschicht-Futzis mit ein bisschen Herz. Das wird dann auch immer gleich von Anfang an klar gemacht, wer wozu gehört Da gibt's keine Entwicklungen und keine Nuancen in den Charakteren, alle reichen Männer sind eigentlich gleich - und als Leser bekommt man auch überhaupt nicht die Möglichkeit, seine eigene Meinung zu den Personen zu haben, weil sie dann entweder so betont liebenswürdig oder so betont unsympathisch sind, dass man daran dann eigentlich überhaupt nichts Interessantes mehr finden kann.Fazit: Vom Krimi-Aspekt her mag ich die Bücher, aber sie könnten so unendlich viel besser sein, wenn irgendwer mal Anne Perry ordentlich Personencharakterisierung beibringt :)
—Kathi-sass

I've been re-reading Anne Perry's excellent historical mystery series driven by protagonist William Monk. I'm past this particular book in the series, so please note that these comments apply to the series as a whole.Because Perry started this series decades ago, I've hesitated to post reviews. I'm in the middle of the release of THE BROTHERS' KEEPERS (https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2...), so reading a very talented author whose genre is slightly different from my own (I write contemporary international suspense) is a great way to keep my head in the game without interfering with Book 3 in my Parched series, which I'm writing.But I had to post this review. Perry's work is just masterful. Her characterizations are consistent. To sound like a total writer geek, her character arcs are perfect, which makes each character ring true from novel to novel. Her settings throughout Victorian England are spot on with what I know of the period and place. Each story (so far) is original, with none of the repetition that sometimes seeps in to a series when the writer is running out of ideas. (And thankfully, she doesn't obsess with dress fabric like some writers of historical genres. I'm interested, but not to the point of the information being repetitive book after book after book . . .)If you like historical mystery and suspense, particularly with strong female characters, I don't think you could find a better fireside read than this Anne Perry series. There's a richness to the writing, and work as a whole, that I don't encounter often.I highly recommend the William Monk series.
—N.L.B. Horton

This is perhaps the fifth or sixth book in the series? I found it somewhat less appealing than the earlier ones. I'm growing impatient with the character development, I think, although my guess is that more is to come, it's just leisurely. I also wondered about the soundness of the mystery here. IT seems a bit of a reach. But on the plus side, the historical setting is very strong and I like that a lot. I'll certainly keep reading the series and I wouldn't suggest skipping this one. Just don't (in my view) approach it expecting this to be the best one yet.
—Julie

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