I read this book because it had Sigmund Freud and Carl Jung
as one of the several characters. Yes there are just so many characters and
Freud is not really central, but I’m happy with what little space this novel had
kept for these 2 characters. The Dialogues especially of Freud are beautiful.
I read a book to understand culture and to understand a
person’s feelings. I’m not good in visualizing scenes and I don’t really read a
murder mystery. So even though the author had painstakingly painted a
historical picture of New York, I was just indifferent towards it.
This is a historical psychological thriller with several characters
and after you completed the book, even though you knew that you dint guess the
ending, you will realize that it was good that you dint guess.
There are various twists and you know rationally that all
these things are plain impossible, even though the author tries hard to give
reason for everything. It’s too complicated and so very artificial. After
two-thirds of the novel, the story becomes a plain thriller and you lose
interest.
After the novel ended the author explains where he used his
imagination and where he used the facts. Now that’s interesting, the author had
painstaking researched a lot and that’s a lot of hard work. It’s a good commercial
historical thriller worth reading.
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