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Feb 09, 2018KatherineHere rated this title 4 out of 5 stars
It's confusing when a new character is introduced every chapter for the first six chapters or so, as so many authors are doing now, or jumping from one time frame to another. With this book, there is the added problem that you pretty much need to know the Dept. Q staff before you start, and these you can only know by having read all the previous books. Fortunately, I have, and enjoyed this book immensely, but otherwise, I know I would have been terribly confused, too. To my thinking, this is not a stand-alone book. Here is the story of a frustrated 50ish Danish social worker, who must give benefits to 20ish young women who are not interested in finding a skill, or even just a job, but spend a great deal of time and (other people's) money on their looks while running little scams on the side to afford some frills. Running parallel to this is the Dept. Q employee, Rose, who before (in other books) was somewhat mentally ill, and now is quite mentally ill. The descriptions of her particular behavior/thinking are fascinating.