Macaire understands that: "It had all begun to unravel fifteen years earlier", when his grandfather died and the presidency went to his father -- and when both Lev and Anastasia's paths first crossed with each other and with him.

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Jöel juega con sus personajes, y con nosotros, de una manera magistral. Como en todas sus obras nada es lo que parece y no vas a darte cuenta de lo que realmente ha pasado hasta dos páginas antes del final. Many of the characters bite their tongue when they really should be more open -- most notably Anastasia -- and of course Macaire sits on that big secret of working so long as a secret agent.Los verdaderos protagonistas son Lev, Macaire y Anastasia. Se nos cuenta que en la habitación 622 de un hotel hubo un crimen, aunque no se nos dice quién fue la víctima, y nos pegamos más de 600 páginas dando saltos en el tiempo para ir desentrañando todas las vivencias de esos 3 personajes y para saber qué pasó realmente en aquella habitación. No es por nada, pero lo del asesinato es que era decorativo, a mí es que nunca llegó a importarme porque lo que más peso parecía tener era si Anastasia dejaba a Macaire, su marido, para fugarse con Lev, su amor de juventud. Los 3 rondan los 40 años, pero parecen recién salidos de la adolescencia. Macaire y Lev trabajan juntos en el mismo banco y son candidatos a presidirlo, cosa que agobia a Macaire porque el banco es de su familia y él considera que sí o sí debería ser el elegido.

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Como en la mayoría de thrillers un asesinato sin resolver es la trama, cualquiera de los personajes puede ser el asesino, pero, en este caso, como si estuviéramos jugando a un complicado Cluedo, también cualquiera de ellos puede ser la víctima, ya que hasta bien pasada la mitad del relato no se desvela quién es el asesinado. A tasty, if not always tasteful, tale of supernatural mayhem that fans of King and Crichton alike will enjoy.MY THOUGHTS: I was looking forward to a 'book within a book' mystery, which is not what I got. Think 'corporate conspiracy' instead. He writes that when, after two months, the affair came to an abrupt end he decided he needed a break he headed off to Verbier -- a place Bernard was also fond of. I’ve just been on the choo-choo train to the land of disappointment especially as I really really enjoyed The Truth about the Harry Quebert Affair, The Baltimore Boys though it has to be said less so The Disappearance of Stephanie Mailer. Lev es el hombre al que todo se le da bien y que consigue ganarse rápidamente el aprecio de cualquiera.

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It all starts with an innocuous curiosity: at the Hotel de Verbier, a luxury hotel in the Swiss Alps, there is no Room 622. A burnt-out writer’s retreat at a fancy Swiss hotel is interrupted by a murder mystery in this metafictional, meticulously crafted whodunit from theNew York Times bestselling author ofThe Truth About the Harry Quebert Affair. Por momentos se me hacía aburrido, mucha información sin llegar a ningún lado (o avanzando pero muy lentamente). El enigma de la habitación 622 (2020) ha empezado siendo una decepción tal que aunque haya ido mejorando a medida que avanzan las páginas, no ha sido suficiente para que se me pasara el mal sabor de boca. Porque esperaba pasármelo muchísimo mejor, la verdad. He has an excuse -- but not one he can reveal: for twelve years he's been living a double-life, working as a secret agent for: "P-30, a section within the Department of Defence financed by a secret account, which was virtually unknown -- including to the powerful parliamentary intelligence committee -- and which reported directly to the Federal Council".Not that real Dan Brown is a paragon of female liberation. But this book is fundamentally uninterested in women except as they are prizes for men to win, or providing sex or withholding sex from the author insert character. Come on--did no woman read this book and point this out?!!? (Don’t answer that question, it will probably just depress me). The most prominent female character who doesn’t sleep with or pine after the author insert character is fought over and manipulated by the men in this book in a way that indicates the author fundamentally does not believe women have any agency or free will at all. Ew. B- : too convoluted in its presentation for its own good, but there's some entertainment value to it, not least in how ridiculous the main plot winds up being He chooses the Hotel de Verbier in the Swiss Alps as his sanctuary, a fancy luxury resort where hospitality comes above everything else. Needless to say, what promises to be an idyllic vacation leading to recovery becomes anything but that, and it all starts with a rather peculiar detail: there is no room 622 at the hotel. As to what happened on that fateful day, and the identity of that corpse ... readers must wait a long, long while until those are revealed.

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To begin with, there was an unsolved murder which once took place in room 622, but surprisingly enough, it only marks the tip of the iceberg. In one way or another, the room became pivotal to the succession of Switzerland’s largest private bank, to a counterintelligence operation known only as P-30, and the greatest scandal in hotel hospitality in human history. The Long Layers of Mystery in The Enigma of Room 622Hi Abigail, that’s an interesting opinion! I found the book a bit confusing, but I’m not sure I thought it was dragged out too long. I’m going to have to reread my own review LOL! It’s been awhile since I read the book. Being simultaneously a little too perfect and a little too rife with mystery, I found the Verbier to have made the perfect setting for The Enigma of Room 622. Lush in its decor and populated by a wide cast of eccentric guests and idiosyncratic staff members, it feels like there’s always something of import happening somewhere, and always someone plotting something from the shadows. Ultimately, it feels like an outlandish setting, the only kind which could have allowed for the proper development of the novel’s plot. I’ll admit it also helps that I found the premise itself to be quite clever and conducive to a long and winding murder mystery, one which in and of itself feels like a prolonged vacation, at least from my reader’s perspective. The events surrounding the room’s history are genuinely interesting and I found myself tightly hooked whenever Joel and Scarlett were uncovering some juicy new pieces of information, regardless of whether it brought me closer to the ultimate revelations. The Outlandish Hotel And then the translation, the use of terms that we dont use anymore in the Italian language. There is also a whining tone, that I observe in other books, especially the previous one, The Disappearance of Stephanie Mailer. Me ha llamado la atención que, lejos de grandes giros, la historia va retorci��ndose sobre si misma y, sin que apenas te des cuenta, tu propia percepción de los personajes va cambiando.