One of the most striped Tolstoi quotes says that all happy families are bland. After all, the rest of us can comfort itself with the fact that we are unhappy, but at least interesting. The protagonist in Christina König’s debut novel is also damn unhappy Everything you want. Alex is “Fix Zam” with Vicky – at least that’s how Vicky decided. Vicky Alex ‘life hijacked the horror of Alex’ friends. But at first we are all too happy to sail into ruin with this bewitching antagonist.