Austria: The Quiet Twin by Dan Vyleta
Thoughts: I read this because of the National Post review of the continuation (which still isn’t in the New Brunswick Library System. It is hard to keep to my no new books oath when the library doesn’t have the books I want to read.) So The Quiet Twin is kind of a mystery novel but not really and it’s kind of a book about Nazis but also not really. It’s a book that’s really good to read when there are no other distractions so not on a weekend when it is just me and Tesfa all weekend long and every five seconds she has to tell me something new about My Little Pony or ask about her two night-time sisters Strawberry and Pumpernickel (we had a long car ride last weekend and I told her that she has two sisters that only come out at night named Strawberry and Pumpernickel and at Strawberry and Pumpernickel’s birthday party, they had a unicorn and now Tesfa isn’t quite sure if I’m making it up but she doesn’t one hundred percent not believe me either.) I got really pulled in, then I got annoyed, then pulled in again, and then a bit annoyed again by the end because of the kind of/not really mystery novel and kind of/not really Nazi book.
If the continuation ever comes into the library, then I will be definitely reading it too.
And bonus – Dan Vyleta wrote the book in the town I live in! I don’t think he still lives here though.
Rating: 4/5
Previous Readings Around the World.