This was supposed to be humorous? I don't know if it was the accent or the translation but in no way did I find this book humorous. I was confused by what was happening. I think for me the narrators accent was too distracting for me.

I'm sure 'ear hole' sounds way more poetic in the original Russian, but in English, it was a bit much. Plus the dude held onto the ear for a long time, and somehow it was still good and didn't smell too bad, but still, I might be missing the symbolism behind the ear, or maybe the dude just really likes his unattached ear. Who really knows.

This is book 2, and I feel like it did a very good job of going from book 1 to 2. I did read them very close to each other time wise, but I feel like you'd be fine if there is a great amount of time passing between reading 1 and 2.

There were what felt like many storylines happening at the same time. You had the meat case, the abduction, the war is still going on, a mole in the police, some major public accident, it was a lot to keep track of.

Overall, not bad, decent 2nd book.

The Stolen Heart was another thrilling read from Andrey Kurkov. Super interesting and propulsive. Can't wait to read more from him

I have to admit, that listened to this book because I enjoy previous author's work.

Then I found out it's a second book in a series and had to find first, because... Well that made sense. I suppose you could listen to it without having listened/read the first one. But having done that, it gives you a better picture of things.

I have to admit again, I'm not too big in detectives, but very big historical fiction. I guess this book has a good balance of both!

Some really good insights of how Ukraine and it's people were fighting, living, loving and trying to survive tumultuous times of 1918-1921...

Some grotesque, some absurd, some cruel and sad stories and deep felt love story thorought it all.

The main point of view taken from a young guy who, after the death of his father found himself becoming investigator and what that in entails in extremely fast changing historical environment.. There's a lot of naivety, sincerity in it.

It's interesting read, but I think even though as author himself states, it's primarily a detective, one needs certain degree of interest in history in order to appreciate it fully.

I tried to get into this series, but the author's style is just implossibly hard for me to read :( this seems like something I'd really like, but I just can't get through this! sigh

This was a fun adventure! Admittedly, I don't remember too much from the first book but it was nice to reunite with some characters; Samson and Nadezhda in particular!