I would like to join! My goal is 12 books.
I finished these books so far:
1. INFINITUM - Die Ewigkeit der Sterne (To Sleep In A Sea Of Stars), Christopher Paolini, 960 pages
2. Tagebuch eines sentimentalen Killers, Luis Sepúlveda, 96 pages
3. Das Netzwerk, Markus Kompa, 224 pages
4. GIER - Wie weit würdest du gehen? (Greed), Marc Elsberg, 448 pages
To Sleep In A Sea Of Stars:
When biologist Kira Navarez is exploring the environment of a foreign planet she falls down into a cavern - and some sort of seemingly sentient spacesuit attaches to her - and lashes out against her spacecrew, killing most of them including the man who she planned to marry. Ridden with guilt, Kira is kept in an isolated tank to get experimented on but the spaceship gets wrecked and Kira finds herself with two tasks - finding a way to either control the suit or detach from it and secondly, help humanity against a variety of aliens that have entered the scene, all seemingly eager to get their hands (or tentacles) on the Xeno-spacesuit.
Book is overall decent. The action scenes did nothing for me, overall very little of the backstory on how humanity has explored space and developped as society is explained, considering the page count, although some small summary of that is added in the glossary after the book. The author also wrote about how the book was rewritten and restructured multiple times in a year-long process, as feedback from test readers ammounted to the whole thing not working.
I would say the rework was mostly a success, although the book feels repetitive at times.
Tagebuch eines sentimentalen Killers:
An aged hired gun accepts one more mission: for a six digit monetary reward, he needs to kill one more person. But the hired gun is suffering from a broken heart, as he broke up with the woman he planned to enjoy retirement with. As such, the mistakes pile up and the question of why his client wants to see the man dead send the hired gun across the globe.
Pretty good short story.
Das Netzwerk:
Ellen Strachwitz, president of the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution, has mastered every crisis thus far but now several groups seem to plan to intervene into the next election by manipulating the press or using fake news. One such group that is allegedly involved calls itself deanon (basically german anonymous just smaller in scale) and worse than that, there also seems to be a person that tries to faccilitate a terror attack to sway public opinion.
Good political thriller.
Greed:
The economy is in shambles, world wide. Herbert Thompson, former winner of the economic Nobel prize, plans to attend a summit in Berlin, where he wants to hold a speech that proposes a solution for these economic voes - but his car gets hacked and run against a tree, killing him and heavily injuring the other passenger who also worked with him on the scientific paper.
Jan, caretaker and basically just a normal guy, sees that agents set the crashed car on fire and take documents with them - the slowly arriving police misses that key event and think that Jan is the main suspect in a possible murder.
As such Jan has no choice but to flee the scene and try to find the man whose name the dying car passenger managed to utter : Fitzroy.
Decent book. The economic theory stuff is very interesting but gets kinda lost in the action heavy, fast paced story.
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