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Une erreur de parcours - Tome 0 - Une erreur de parcours
Toute ressemblance avec des personnes ou des situations existant ou ayant existé serait une drôle de coïncidence… Dans une ville de l'Est de la France, Sylvestre Ruppert-Levansky, un président de cours d’assises entame son dernier procès, là où justement il a démarré sa carrière. Tout lui rappelle Rachel son premier amour et surtout Mathilde, une serial killeuse manipulatrice et diabolique. Le vieux juge a une réputations sans tâche. On le dit tolérant et juste. Mais un policier surgi de ce passé demande à le voir. Tout n’est peut-être pas aussi limpide que le veut la légende de Sylvestre le si bon président… Dans un polar haletant, chabrolien et plein de surprises, Robert et Biancarelli réinventent le genre avec talent.
- GenresMysteryBande Dessinée
160 pages, Paperback
First published September 6, 2019
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October 20, 2020
I was really interested in reading this graphic novel. And I am happy I got the chance to.
But somehow there wasn't much I like about it. The dialogues and the lines were rather too difficult to read. The characters were confusing and the plot didn't do much. I so wanted to like this one. Sadly, I had to stop reading it midway.
Thank you #NetGalley for the book #ALapseinJudgement.
But somehow there wasn't much I like about it. The dialogues and the lines were rather too difficult to read. The characters were confusing and the plot didn't do much. I so wanted to like this one. Sadly, I had to stop reading it midway.
Thank you #NetGalley for the book #ALapseinJudgement.
March 2, 2020
A thriller with a typical white male middle-aged anti-hero, in the style of such prestige dramas as Mad Men and Breaking Bad.
Sylvestre, a French judge, is on the cusp of retirement, just one more case to judge. It's at this moment he looks back at the time when he was still a prosecutor, right before he was to be made a judge. We see how the case he was working on became an obsession, while at the same time his (younger) girlfriend left him. It is only towards the end of the book that we discover how these two occurrences are linked.
The question whether you'll enjoy this book will rest a lot on how much you can stomach this kind of anti-hero. The story is soaked with subtle and decidedly unsubtle forms of misogyny, which might be a hurdle, but as the story is told from his perspective, it does fit his character.
The art is functional, with some lovely touches regarding the lighting of scenes.
(Kindly received an ARC from Europe Comics through Netgalley)
Sylvestre, a French judge, is on the cusp of retirement, just one more case to judge. It's at this moment he looks back at the time when he was still a prosecutor, right before he was to be made a judge. We see how the case he was working on became an obsession, while at the same time his (younger) girlfriend left him. It is only towards the end of the book that we discover how these two occurrences are linked.
The question whether you'll enjoy this book will rest a lot on how much you can stomach this kind of anti-hero. The story is soaked with subtle and decidedly unsubtle forms of misogyny, which might be a hurdle, but as the story is told from his perspective, it does fit his character.
The art is functional, with some lovely touches regarding the lighting of scenes.
(Kindly received an ARC from Europe Comics through Netgalley)
March 14, 2020
The story starts out a little cliche and quite awkward. We soon jump into action with a confusing storyline. I struggled to figure out what was going on from scene to scene if we were in present-day or the past.
Sylvester is young and on his way to becoming a judge, his life is all about work which leaves him to neglect the relationship he has with his girlfriend.
At work, he is trying to get a woman who the police and he believed has killed her lover, although there is very little proof of forensics to back up the claim (it is the 80’s), only the account of witnesses (although none of them have witnessed the murder). They go after this old woman who is quite the character and convict her, Sylvester is haunted by her in his dreams and becomes quite messed up as a result.
All the while his girlfriend is cheating on him, dumps him, moves on and is proceeded to be slightly stalked by him. He’s mad at her for cheating while he also cheats with one of his friend’s wives??
Sylvester also has an odd friendship with a 13-year-old girl in the apartment complex, she cleans and cooks for him, they hang out together, and he believes her to be more mature than other girls her age.
In the end, this case really gets to him and he ends up committing a crime and getting away with it.
I would’ve enjoyed this more if the story wasn’t all over the place, making me incredibly confused. Sylvester is also a very unlikeable character, I got some serious incel vibes from him which were proved to be true.
Fair to say I didn’t enjoy this as much as I had hoped.
3 stars.
**ARC provided by Europe Comics via NetGalley in exchange for an honest review.
Sylvester is young and on his way to becoming a judge, his life is all about work which leaves him to neglect the relationship he has with his girlfriend.
At work, he is trying to get a woman who the police and he believed has killed her lover, although there is very little proof of forensics to back up the claim (it is the 80’s), only the account of witnesses (although none of them have witnessed the murder). They go after this old woman who is quite the character and convict her, Sylvester is haunted by her in his dreams and becomes quite messed up as a result.
All the while his girlfriend is cheating on him, dumps him, moves on and is proceeded to be slightly stalked by him. He’s mad at her for cheating while he also cheats with one of his friend’s wives??
Sylvester also has an odd friendship with a 13-year-old girl in the apartment complex, she cleans and cooks for him, they hang out together, and he believes her to be more mature than other girls her age.
In the end, this case really gets to him and he ends up committing a crime and getting away with it.
I would’ve enjoyed this more if the story wasn’t all over the place, making me incredibly confused. Sylvester is also a very unlikeable character, I got some serious incel vibes from him which were proved to be true.
Fair to say I didn’t enjoy this as much as I had hoped.
3 stars.
**ARC provided by Europe Comics via NetGalley in exchange for an honest review.
May 10, 2020
Read in English.
Just when a judge is about to see his last murder case, he jumps back to the beginning of his prosecutor career, and a case of a missing man the police can't be bothered with – a case that causes the loss of his key relationship that the elderly him is still grieving over.
This is very easily called out as too long and wordy – it's trying to be a police procedural, as the lover of the missing man gets fingered for being a bit weird and for making sure he's never found again, just as it's also trying to be a character piece for the judge bloke we're never really allowed to care much about. Thus we get him having a one night stand with a cute redhead (who crops up later having lost about six stone, so average is the artwork), and thus we get a decidedly creepy relationship with a thirteen year old girl who's one of his neighbours. But on the whole it's OK – and that whole does depend on you sticking it out to the big reveal. It's one of those books where you have to tell yourself to trust the publishers and author, that they are in the position of getting a book in your hands because they know what they're doing. Here it's hard to believe at times, but the patience of going through this is just about justified at the end.
Oh, and it's even harder to believe the publishers do know what they're doing, when the book's own back cover blurb and goodreads summary gives the whole story away.
Just when a judge is about to see his last murder case, he jumps back to the beginning of his prosecutor career, and a case of a missing man the police can't be bothered with – a case that causes the loss of his key relationship that the elderly him is still grieving over.
This is very easily called out as too long and wordy – it's trying to be a police procedural, as the lover of the missing man gets fingered for being a bit weird and for making sure he's never found again, just as it's also trying to be a character piece for the judge bloke we're never really allowed to care much about. Thus we get him having a one night stand with a cute redhead (who crops up later having lost about six stone, so average is the artwork), and thus we get a decidedly creepy relationship with a thirteen year old girl who's one of his neighbours. But on the whole it's OK – and that whole does depend on you sticking it out to the big reveal. It's one of those books where you have to tell yourself to trust the publishers and author, that they are in the position of getting a book in your hands because they know what they're doing. Here it's hard to believe at times, but the patience of going through this is just about justified at the end.
Oh, and it's even harder to believe the publishers do know what they're doing, when the book's own back cover blurb and goodreads summary gives the whole story away.
March 12, 2020
On the eve of his retirement a judge looks back at a difficult time in the early days of his career.
There is very much a dark European noir sensibility at work in A Lapse in Judgment. Unfortunately it doesn't work as well as it could. Rather than building a suspenseful tale that draws in the reader it ends up getting sidetracked in a brooding overlong self-indulgent misery. The judge, in both young and old incarnations, never really comes to life.
At times I had a feeling that something (possibly something important) was getting lost in translation. There were parts that seemed clipped... Like there was a missing panel of exposition or plotpoint. Maybe I just didn't "get it".
The art was fine. No complaints or issues in that respect.
There is some nudity, adult language and adult (sexual) situations. Not an overabundance of any of it but it's there.
***Thanks to NetGalley and Europe Comics for providing me with a free digital copy of this title in exchange for an honest review
There is very much a dark European noir sensibility at work in A Lapse in Judgment. Unfortunately it doesn't work as well as it could. Rather than building a suspenseful tale that draws in the reader it ends up getting sidetracked in a brooding overlong self-indulgent misery. The judge, in both young and old incarnations, never really comes to life.
At times I had a feeling that something (possibly something important) was getting lost in translation. There were parts that seemed clipped... Like there was a missing panel of exposition or plotpoint. Maybe I just didn't "get it".
The art was fine. No complaints or issues in that respect.
There is some nudity, adult language and adult (sexual) situations. Not an overabundance of any of it but it's there.
***Thanks to NetGalley and Europe Comics for providing me with a free digital copy of this title in exchange for an honest review
April 11, 2020
Um magistrado à beira da reforma recorda o seu primeiro grande caso, na juventude do lançamento da carreira. Um momento difícil para ele, que enfrentou uma dolorosa separação enquanto investigava o seu primeiro grande caso, de uma assassina passional que cometeu um crime quase indetetável. Uma separação difícil, que não aceitou bem. E que irá resolver inspirando-se na criminosa que investiga. o impoluto e justo magistrado, no final de uma longa carreira, carregou durante décadas o segredo da única vez em que se tornou criminoso, nunca apanhado ou punido.
O livro em si é uma leitura algo entediante, mas ganha vida no final, quando a história se revela e várias pistas deixadas ao longo das páginas passam a fazer sentido. O estilo gráfico traz à vida a estética dos anos 80.
O livro em si é uma leitura algo entediante, mas ganha vida no final, quando a história se revela e várias pistas deixadas ao longo das páginas passam a fazer sentido. O estilo gráfico traz à vida a estética dos anos 80.
December 26, 2022
Starts off strong with a judge looking back at his last case as an investigator before he became a judge. It's about a man who disappeared from a girlfriends house. The story gets very muddled though as it becomes more about the investigators private life and his breakup with a girlfriend. The book is filled with misogyny. I had a hard time finishing it as the book went along. You can give this one a pass as the ending was stupid.
March 18, 2020
It’s not very easy to follow the characters not sure if that is a translation problem. The art is nice It’s just not as deep as it originally feels it’s going to be when you start.
January 8, 2025
C’est pas le meilleur ni le pire livre policier que j’ai vu. Ce fût tout de même une lecture sympathique.
January 18, 2024
Het lezen van dit boek was inderdaad een beetje een 'misrekening' van mijnentwege.
"een adembenemende thriller vol lust en bedrog" volgens de uitgever.
Wat mij betreft eerder "een middelmatige en voorspelbare thriller met hier en daar een vleugje misogynie."
"een adembenemende thriller vol lust en bedrog" volgens de uitgever.
Wat mij betreft eerder "een middelmatige en voorspelbare thriller met hier en daar een vleugje misogynie."
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