1. B. Akunin "Eurasian Empire. History of the Russian State. The Age of Queens"
Evaluation: 4
Limitations: No.
Genre: History
I never hid the fact that I loved the work of Boris Akunin. Especially the early books, which I read many times and will continue to reread. I also have a positive attitude towards this project, which is scolded by many people. But...there is a lot But, and each time more and more. I respect both as a writer and as a person Grigory Shalvovich Chkhartishvili, and although I do not accept his political positions, I cannot understand why he cannot preach them openly. But not in books. Unfortunately, he is losing more and more balance. He is no longer a man "above the battle", a writer who shows different sides, pluses, and minuses. He is a citizen who wants to kick, punch and knock down the country where he was born and grew up. And in every book, it is visible more and more. And this is an unpleasant surprise. For... Why is this all? Do you have a desire to renew what Klyuchevsky and Solovyov did? Describe in your own way and attract new readers. It's beautiful. But it is important to be impartial. If possible. I think so...
With every book, he does it worse and worse. Politics is pushing over creativity. In everything.
Sometimes this book is beautiful. And interesting, and accessible and cool. But only a part. I imagine what will happen next...
Conclusion: For all my love for the author I can not put more than 4. And I would not recommend it for reading. Especially if you are not familiar with the history of the country. For you can perceive everything one-sidedly.
2. D. Connolly - "All the dead will find peace"
Evaluation: 5
Limitations: No.
Genre: Detective
3. D. Connolly - "Dark Hollow"
Evaluation: 5
Limitations: No.
Genre: Detective
There are such funny things when you look for one author and find another and open cool books. Not often, but that's what happened to me. Once I was looking for Lincoln Child but confused him with Lee Child, and now the last one of my favorite writers. And now it happened again. Michael Connally was looking for a new book and discovered John Connolly. A brilliant detective writer who has a series of novels about former police officer Charlie Parker. Read two books and they are cool! Twist, plot, description, the main character himself. Everything is great! I will continue to read.
Charlie Parker's loved ones were killed, he left the police and is trying to find himself. And he gets involved in different stories. First, in search of a murderer of loved ones, and then just the old cases of his grandfather. Very interesting.
Conclusion: I can advise with a light heart.
4. M. Connally - "Lawyer's revolver"
Evaluation: 5
Limitations: No.
Genre: Detective
If you think I quit looking for Michael Connally, it's for nothing. Found and read a new (for me) book about Mickey Holler. Apparently, I missed one because Holler got back into advocacy and decided to take part in a trial in which the killer was accused by an old friend of his. He did not believe that he had committed a crime here and rushed into battle. As always an interesting story and a great description of the procedure from the point of view of the lawyer. It is always interesting to read about Holler - it is a fact.
Conclusion: a great author, a great hero, interesting books
5. V. Suvorov "Chronicle of the Great Decade. Kuz'kin's mother"
Evaluation: 3
Limitations: No.
Genre: History
6. V. Suvorov - "Soviet Military Intelligence. How the most powerful and most closed intelligence organization of the XX century worked".
Evaluation: 5
Limitations: No.
Genre: History, Intelligence
As he had planned earlier, he finished the trilogy of V. Suvorov (Resun) about the era of Nikita Khrushchev. As expected, this book was the weakest. Although, it seems that the author published it first (called "Against all"), then did as prequels. But it seemed to me that the very first (but not the time) book in the series was the most interesting. Further on, it gets worse and worse.
And here the second book is in general one of the best works of the author in general. Very and very interesting, professionally and as always "in Suvorov, available. Very good work. On me, in general, the second book on quality at it after Purification. Therefore it is very even cool. Though a little bit strains the desire of the author to show that he was not the only traitor. There were others.
Conclusion: the first book is not to be read, but the second one is very good.