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Seweryn Zaorski stara się na nowo ułożyć sobie życie, kiedy do zakładu patomorfologii w Żeromicach zaczynają trafiać ciała małych dzieci z okolicy. Nikt nie potrafi rozwiązać zagadki śmierci młodych ofiar, nic bowiem nie wskazuje na to, by zostały zamordowane. Seweryn jest jednak przekonany, że może stać się głosem tych, którzy mówią już jedynie z zaświatów. Kto i dlaczego zabija niewinne dzieci? I jaki związek ma to z tajemniczymi wiadomościami, które Zaorski zaczyna otrzymywać?

At the time of writing this review this book is only available in polish.

This book is the second book in the “Seweryn Zaorski” series. I have pretty mixed feelings about this book just as I had after finishing the first book in this series.

On the one side this book is much better than the first book in this series but at the same time the plot is even less existing than it was in the first book and the characters are just so much more annoying than in the first book in this series.

The plot in this book is very absurd just think about someone is killing and raping little girls and there is a investigation to find out who is the murder. And all of the absurd things which you think wont happen because they would have been too stupid or lame. They do happen in this book. 

But also the author doesn’t do a good jobbing in hiding who the murder is throughout this book and only reveling it at the end. The author ignores all that. The moment we first met the murder (of course we didn’t know he was the murder) at the beginning of this book I hade a feeling and was already in chapter 3 or 4 pointing fingers to the correct person who might be the murder. And because of this I would get so angry at the main characters for not even suspecting that person that I would scream at them fully knowing that they are fictional character and that they wouldn’t hear me whatsoever.

The characters seem do develop and grow but in the reverse way than forwards. I don’t know if it just me but I feel like the characters make even more stupid decisions than in the first book. And because of this I found them being so damn annoying.

However I liked the ending a lot in this book. Because we get a twist at the end which makes us think “oh, now it makes sense”. Or at least it was how I reacted when I read the ending of this book. 

I personally think that the ending of this book was much better than the ending in the first book in this series. Because as ive said the review for the first book of the series, I thought and still think that it was very confusing and all over the place. But in this book the whole reveling of who the murder is and how he operated was actually pretty logical than in the first book.

There are times when the author drags for too long and describes things which aren’t relevant or just talks about how much the main two character want to bang each other but they cant since the female main character is married to the major of the town and she is a police deputy. Which really made me so annoyed at this book and the author. Because 15% of this book is talking about how much the two main characters want to kiss each other or bang each other but it never happens. So why use so much of this book talking about something which never happens in the end? But at the same time its a crime / mystery book so I don’t want the author use pages and pages talking about how much 2 characters want to bang each other. If I wanted to read about sex I would pick up “fifty shades of gray” or “365 days”.

I Give This Book 2 / 5

Dwadzieścia lat po śmierci ojca Kaja Burzyńska wciąż otrzymuje od niego wiadomości. Zadbał o to, przygotowując je zawczasu i zlecając coroczną wysyłkę tego samego, pozornie przypadkowego dnia. Po czasie Kaja traktuje to już jedynie jako zwyczajną tradycję – aż do momentu, gdy w listach zaczyna dostrzegać drugie dno. Tymczasem do miasteczka po dwudziestu dwóch latach wraca Seweryn Zaorski. Patomorfolog i samotny ojciec dwójki dzieci kupuje zrujnowany dom rodzinny Kai i rozpoczyna remont. W zniszczonym garażu odnajduje zamurowaną skrytkę z materiałami, które rzucają nowe światło na sprawę sprzed dwóch dekad.

At the time of writing this review this book is only available in polish.

At this point I was read multiple books written by Remigiusz Mróz, and I gotta say that I’ve read worse books written by the author and I have read better books by this author. So this book is firmly in the middle.

In my opinion this book is all over the place, because there is a lot of things happening in this book and we follow two perspectives in this book.

The plot here is that the wife of the major is a policewoman and her father went missing with no trace 2 decades before and ever since her father went missing she gets weird letters from her father. So we follow her investigation to what happened with her father those 2 decades ago but then we get mob investigation and secret society investigation which really made it very very confusing for me.

The characters in this book were very far from being good. Don’t get me wrong they were okay. But in the end I just didn’t care about them nor did I bother to remember them for a long time after finishing this book.

The main character in this book was very meh, because I didn’t care at all about what will happen with him. In my opinion he makes stupid decisions and was not the smartest character I came across.

Its important to say that this book is the first book in the series of named “Seweryn Zaorski” which at the time of writing this book is a 5 books series. 

I need to be honest here and say that the first part of this book was actually very good, intriguing, interesting and enjoyable. But the second part of it is when the book started going down hill at least in my opinion. Which of course might explain why I gave this book a 3 star rating. 

The writing style in this book is okay. I have no strong feels about the writing style in this book. Because the author uses very simple and easy language which really doubt make you think about what is happening in the book but rather tells you straight away “this happens, then this happens and then this happens”. Which I personally am not a fan of. I prefer when the authors leave space to reader imagination rather than setting the plot in stone.

The ending of this book as Ive said above is all over the place and left me very confused about what had just happened. Which in my opinion isn’t a good thing if the author wants me give his book a good rating.

I Give This Book 3 / 5

Żona i córka robotnika z Ursynowa giną tragicznie w niewyjaśnionych okolicznościach. Ich polisa na życie jest tak duża, że towarzystwo ubezpieczeniowe nie spieszy się z jej wypłaceniem. Pogrążony w żałobie mężczyzna spodziewa się problemów, ale to, co go spotyka, przechodzi jego najśmielsze obawy. Ubezpieczyciel odmawia wypłaty, twierdząc, że to robotnik zamordował rodzinę. Zaraz potem prokuratura stawia mu zarzuty, a on rozpoczyna walkę o uniewinnienie i własny honor. Pomaga mu prawniczka, która niedawno pogrzebała całą swoją karierę.

At the time of writing this book this book is available in Polish and Ukrainian.

This book is the third book in the book series “Chyłka & Zordon” and I got to be hones there and say that this book was less impressive and much more less fun than the first two books in this series.

This book is the longest book in this series so far, so I was expecting more action and more juicy crime investigation from the main characters. But we didn’t get it. 

80% of this book the main characters doesn’t talk with each other since at the end of the second book they had a big argument and Chyłka left the law firm named “Żelazny & McVay” which to this point was the firm where the two main characters were working at. 

If you loved the first book in this series as much as I do, then you will get surprised and excited for during reading this book since one of the main characters from book one will have a huge comeback in this book.

The plot here was really dragged out at times, and because of this aspect this book would have been so much better if it was shorted down to like 450 – 500 pages rather than being over 600 pages long.

There are quite a few events in this book which doesn’t lead us anywhere. I don’t know why does events were in the book, since they leave you thinking “why did this happen if it just irrelevant for the plot as a whole?”.

There is also a huge “What The Fuck?” moment in this book which have something to do with one of the side characters which I love as much as the main character. Which of course is Kormak. 

The writing style is as amazing as in the first two books in this series. Its like the author know what words to use to completely grab your attention and not let it go until the very end of this book.  Which I personally love when it happens in this book and its a easy way for me to give the book some extra points. 

The characters here are as good as they were in the first two books. Of course we don’t see a lot of progress in the relationship between Chyłka  and Zordon. Because as I’ve said before they spend 80% of this book not on speaking terms nor do they see each other or try to contact each other.

However there were couple of times were I would get angry at Chyłka during this book, because in this book her alcohol problem gets way bigger and way out of hands and she makes the stupidest decisions ever like drinking vodka during the break of a court session. 

There were also times were I would get pissed of at Zordon, because he would be like the most career driven asshole as I have seen in my life. And he would like do the most dick head moves towards Chyłka. 

However the ending is very good, because the end is where Zordon decides to be the good guy and decides to not play along being the bad guy and teams up with Chyłka again. Which really made me happy.

The main case of this book was okay, but it wasn’t as interesting, intriguing and mysterious as the cases from the two previous books. I like the case in this book but I wasn’t impressed and intrigued by it as I was in the previous two books of this series.

I Give This Book 3 / 5

Trzyletnia dziewczynka znika bez śladu z domku letniskowego bogatych rodziców. Alarm przez całą noc był włączony, a okna i drzwi zamknięte. Śledczy nie odnajdują żadnych poszlak świadczących o porwaniu i podejrzewają, że dziecko nie żyje. Doświadczona prawniczka, Joanna Chyłka, i jej początkujący podopieczny, Kordian Oryński, podejmują się obrony małżeństwa, któremu prokuratura stawia zarzut zabójstwa. Proces ma charakter poszlakowy, mimo to wszystko zdaje się wskazywać na winę rodziców – wszak gdy wyeliminuje się to, co niemożliwe, cokolwiek pozostanie, musi być prawdą.

This book is available in polish, Russian and English, at the time of writing this review. Having out of the way we can start talking about this book.

This book is the second book in “Chyłka & Zordon” series. After reading and loving the first book in this series I was afraid that I wouldn’t like so much this second book and that it would be less impressive than the first book. But this book is just as interesting and enjoyable as the first book in this series. 

The plot in this book is a little bit less interesting than in the first book. But it is still very very interesting and it sucks you right into the plot. And I personally couldn’t put this book down because I was so sucked into this book, and even when I wasn’t reading this book I was thinking about this book all the time because I wanted to know what will happen next.

This book has more humor and joking from the main character than what we got in the first book, so under this aspect this book is a little bit better than the first book because the jokes the main characters make throughout this book it makes the whole book less tense.

I had some problems with the ending in this book, because the ending was very rushed and it felt like the author himself didn’t know what the ending should be liked so he just rushed through the last chapters of this book.

There is a big plot twists where of course the whole mystery gets solved and we see what truly happened to the little girl which vanished from the house in the middle of the night. And I loved the plot twists at the ending because you were like “of course that this must have happened, I should have thought about this but I didn’t”. The solution for the vanishing of the little girl is all over the book, but you just don’t think about it. 

The writing style in this book is very very incredible because its like the author knows what words to use to completely grab your attention with is. The writing style also plays very well with the plot, characters and setting.

The main characters in this book which of course are Joanna Chyłka and Kordian Oryński are even better than they were in the first book. And you can see the character development they had from book one. They are still the same characters they were in the first book, but in this book they seem smarter from what they went through in the first book.

In a way Joanna Chyłka and Kordian Oryński have more personality in this book than what they had in the first book. I liked them much more in this book than in the first book because both this second book and the first book are on the larger size so it means that you spend a lot of time with them which makes it easier for you to like them.

We also get new characters in this book, they were also very very good character. Not as good as the main characters but still they were good and I liked them a lot. They had their unique personalities which made me like them even more.

The edition I have of this book is 506 pages long, and I was so sucked into this book that I didn’t notice the length of this book and I read this book much faster than I expected.

I Give This Book 5 / 5

Syn biznesmena zostaje oskarżony o zabicie dwóch osób. Sprawa wydaje się oczywista. Potencjalny winowajca spędza bowiem 10 dni zamknięty w swoim mieszkaniu w towarzystwie ciał zamordowanych osób. Sprawę prowadzi Joanna Chyłka, pracująca dla bezwzględnej, warszawskiej korporacji. Nieprzebierająca w środkach prawniczka, która zrobi wszystko, by odnieść zwycięstwo w batalii sądowej. Pomaga jej młody, zafascynowany przełożoną, aplikant Kordian Oryński. Czy jednak wspólnie zdołają doprowadzić sprawę do szczęśliwego finału?

This book is available in polish and English at the time of writing this review. So all the English speaking readers can also get hacked up with this book.

I gotta say that this book was a wild ride, and I loved every second of it. And Im very happy that I finally got to read this book and start the series. Because since 2015 I’ve heard a ton of good things about this book and whole series, I was very reluctant to read this book because I thought that I wouldn’t like it but oh boy, I was wrong. After finishing this book I have to say that I love this fucking book.

The beginning of this book is very intriguing because you don’t know whats is going on, you follow Kordian who have been accepted to very prestige law firm in Warsaw as a apprentice. We don’t know what to expect, what will happen to him or anything. Kordian gets quickly assigned to a mentor who is also the junior associate of the law firm, and her name is Joanna Chyłka. 

The plot is very very good, I was completely sucked into this book and I found it impossible trying to put this book down. Because I needed to know what will happen next and I was so deep into this book that during the time I was reading this book nothin else mattered to me. Which really honest happen so often to me.

All the characters here are very good, and to be honest I wouldn’t have any problems with becoming very good friends with each of the characters in this book. All of the characters in this book have huge personality, and something which really makes you like them a lot. You even come to like the one of the name partners of the law firm which really portrayed as the bad guy in the law firm, you know but you come slowly to the point where you like him as well.

When it comes to the two main characters of this book (and the whole series) which of course as Kordian Oryński and Joanna Chyłka. And oh boy, I cant even explain how much I love these two characters. Even thou they have met in this book, they have like the best relationship ever. Their relationship is of best friends who have know each other for decades and who aren’t afraid to roast each other at times. But also they two have a spark between them, there are moments where they almost kiss. And I kept wondering when during the series the become a official couple.

Kordian Oryński is straight out of law university and of course he doesn’t have a lot of experience as a lawyer but you can very easily see how create of a lawyer he will become within the next couple of books in this series. 

And don’t get me even started about Joanna Chyłka, she is a bad as. She is easily the best female character I came across so far in my life. Very quickly in this book she secured herself a firm and secure spot in my heart and in my mind.

As for the rest of the characters in this book they are as good of characters as the main characters. Even the bad guy in this book which of course is the client which Kordian Oryński and Joanna Chyłka are representing is oh boy, amazing. The bad guy in this book is all over the place, because he gives a very weird vibe like there is something he is hiding and you just cant decide is he is innocent or if he has committed the crimes he is charged for.

The writing style here is incredible. Because its like the author knows what words to use to grab your attention. The writing style here was a part of the charm of this book because it very very good. 

The entire book is very interesting, enjoyable and I knew within the first 100 pages of this book that 5 stars rating isn’t enough to show how much I love this book.

This book doesn’t have the fastest speed, it tends to be more on the slow side of things but it really makes up for this fact. Because it goes through everything which happens in this book more in detail and in doing so it sucks you deeper into it just like if you are the lawyer in this book and learning everything as things comes up. 

The ending of this book has a huge plot twist here, because the closer and closer to the ending the more of the hopeless feeling you get about the two main characters losing their court case for their client. I cant say what will happen in the ending of this book, because I don’t want to spill the tea for anyone who hasn’t read the book yet. But just be prepared the ending will be a huge “what the fuck happened here?” Moment.

I Give This Book 5 / 5