I love it when you reach that point in a book that previously hadn't quite grabbed you when you realize you cannot put it down. I hit that point with The Good German. It's fast-paced, it's a mystery, it's a wrenching portrait of post-war Berlin (for example, one minor character is a Jewish woman who saved her own life by ratting out other Jews, and even her portrayal is three-dimensional enough that you ache for her). I love it.
I can't really talk about the plot, because almost anything revealed would be a spoiler. So let me just say it's great. Occasionally Kanon's many characters are hard to keep track of (this was a bigger problem in Stardust) but about a quarter of the way in, I had everyone pretty set in my head. So no big problems. And for once the central romance is between people who are roughly the same age!
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