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A review by andrew61
The Exception by Christian Jungersen
3.0
An interesting plot sees four women working in a research centre for the study of genocide in Denmark. Thus two characters Marlene and Iben are liberal, free thinking , with a passion for human rights. However when they receive apparent threatening emails from a Serbian war criminal after publishing an article about him in the centres journal they quickly attribute the source as Anne Lise the newly appointed librarian in the centre and with the fourth woman Camilla start a campaign of bullying against her. the contradiction with their own ideals and ability to see their own faults is obvious.
So not a bad premise and the plotting was enjoyable if you could manage to wade through feeling that the reader was constantly being lectured at with repeated essays on war crimes and psychology which at times annoyed me as I felt like I was being lead by the nose by the author and treated as if I had to reminded of the horrors of genocide or what exactly psychology experiments such as Milgram prove. The feeling of being patronised therefore was what I was left with at the end of the book and a feeling that it could have lost 100+ pages very easily.
So not a bad premise and the plotting was enjoyable if you could manage to wade through feeling that the reader was constantly being lectured at with repeated essays on war crimes and psychology which at times annoyed me as I felt like I was being lead by the nose by the author and treated as if I had to reminded of the horrors of genocide or what exactly psychology experiments such as Milgram prove. The feeling of being patronised therefore was what I was left with at the end of the book and a feeling that it could have lost 100+ pages very easily.