Tanashie's review
The Interpretation of Murder by Jed Rubenfeld
This book, while entertaining, is certainly not among my favourites. I might not have been a wholly objective reader, though, since I'm no fan of Freud's and generally don't read murder/detective stories.
You can tell the author is fairly inexperienced when it comes to writing novels and was more interested in keeping the reader guessing until the last minute than keeping his story continuous. (Which I find more and more authors doing lately, why is that?) The conculsion of the murders and the story is surprising but mostly satisfying, though.
Rubenfeld does a pretty good job of keeping his story true to historical facts, settings, timelines, etc. and at the end explaines in detail where he differed from history. He also keeps his characters' thoughts and actions close to what people back then might have thought and done, which sometimes seemed a little alien to me as a late twentieth century-girl, but which of course was a good thing in this context.
I liked that Freud was mo...more
You can tell the author is fairly inexperienced when it comes to writing novels and was more interested in keeping the reader guessing until the last minute than keeping his story continuous. (Which I find more and more authors doing lately, why is that?) The conculsion of the murders and the story is surprising but mostly satisfying, though.
Rubenfeld does a pretty good job of keeping his story true to historical facts, settings, timelines, etc. and at the end explaines in detail where he differed from history. He also keeps his characters' thoughts and actions close to what people back then might have thought and done, which sometimes seemed a little alien to me as a late twentieth century-girl, but which of course was a good thing in this context.
I liked that Freud was mo...more
