Reviews

The Man From Berlin by Luke McCallin

gcanton's review

Too slow paced, boring characters 

beckycliffe's review

adventurous dark mysterious tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

4.0

lulumillie02's review

adventurous mysterious tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

4.5

rbkegley's review

3.0

Entertaining, though I'll admit there were more than a few passages that I skimmed, where the protagonist engages in tortured thoughts of the past. The plot twists were unexpected, and helped move the novel along.

ericwelch's review

3.0

Reinhardt is an ex-Berlin detective, now in the Abwehr in Sarajevo caught up in the murder of a woman journalist and a fellow officer. He's in the middle between partisans, local cops, Croats, Serbes, Communists, the army, and a former colleague who hates him. He's been through WWI and now his son is on the eastern front.

It's an intriguing story with just the right amount of setting detail. Reminiscent of Phillip Kerr's Gunther, this book is not as good as Kerr's original trilogy, but better than some of the later ones.

This may be one of those series where it's difficult to pass a final judgement until more than just the first book have been read, so I will move on to the second.

borisfeldman's review

3.0

Good but not great. A new series about a Nazi-era German cop. Reminiscent of Bernie Gunther (by Philip Kerr), but not as good. Needed substantial editing. But the core character has potential and subsequent novels in the series may be worth reading.

what_kel_reads's review

1.0

I struggled with this one from beginning to end. I'm still not entirely sure I grasped the ending. It was too complicated and the story got muddled.