The first person account of Verena Kessler´s Gym promises terrible revelations in small drops of information: we know that she lied about having a baby and her assume single-mother motive built her own professional narrative as getting hired to work at the reception of MEGA GYM, a sport establishment for the the intensive sports´ afficionados.
The action is taking place in an unrevealed location, but the country is Germany. As I know a bit about the usual working relationships in Germany, I know that any employees having a child are supposed to share with their employer the child´s birth certificate for tax reasons. Therefore, I don´t buy the initial lie of the child.
But this story is only a small part of the iceberg which is about to boil. She is taking herself too seriously at work, and tried to emulate a veteran fitness star, by injecting herself steroids. As someone who spends a moderate amount of time in the gym, I understand some situations that may escalate and people who are getting taken away by the adrenaline outburst, but for the character, this is just a stage in her life journey.
As there is more, more aggressive and violent to it, and the ending, her ending, into a mental institution. A variation of psychotic episodes in a tormended aimless life.
I loved the writing, but despised the psychotic character and her story. Came for the story, stayed for the writing, which is still something, by the way.
Rating: 3 stars
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