Review: The Sensitives

Os sensitivos by Herbert Burkholz

My rating: 5 of 5 stars



It's my principle to award a book five stars only when it ticks many of the boxes its genre typically requires plus a few personal-favourite requirements of mine.

Basically, it's a spy story with a nice, well-woven, unexpected twist.

But make no mistake: the author didn't chose to simply sit on a bed of roses waiting for that story alone to hold on and develop itself: he manages, with real mastery one must say, to get three, four parallel plots flowing along the main one whilst keeping you always wanting for more. I can't single out a single dull passage in the whole book! And if that isn't the main characteristic of real page-turner, I honestly don't know what else is.

Then we come to those afore-mentioned boxes to be ticked off: many of them are indeed!

After all, in all its spy-genre glory, it's got the cool, not-so-law abiding hero, a femme fatale, guns, poker, secret agents aplenty, a scientist who probably holds on his mind the secret for powerful mind-powered computers... and so on. What else could one ask for? Well, those final personal requirements (ie, boxes) to be met. In my case is plot originality, holes in the plot, and so on which The Sensitives managed to fill out nicely.



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