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Disappointed - Rated
I heard the author read out the first chapter at a literary event and was so enthralled I just had to buy it.
What a disappointment! I found her prose quite turgid and the story very laboured - I struggled to get to the end. There seemed to be no dramatic tension and notwithstanding the rather gory details and the potential excitement of the witchcraft angle, these aspects seemed to dwindle out into a subsidiary plot.
By coincidence since I bought the book, a contact started some academic research in this area and that is probably the only reason I finished at all - to be able to discuss it with them.
Her best writing was actually when dealing with the family issues, particularly in relation to her son, though that seemed a curious plot deviation which served no purpose in this book but maybe will lead into something in its successors.
Not as dark as you would think - Rated
I must say i was intrigued at the back cover blurb here, and fully expected a dark moody Icelandic set novel.
So i was a bit disappointed that more time seemed to be set on the lead character's family issues than de facto witchcraft.
It promised so much, yet delivered so little.
Vapid
Jules
excellent - Rated
Nice to see more icelandic crime fiction as well as Indridason's. This is good - the blurb on the back talks about the heroine being helped and hindered by a 'boorish ex policeman'. This is not how I read it. The heroine's heart is in the right place, but she is none too intelligent, and the ex-policeman has a dry sense of humour which she is desperately slow to get. The characters are alive in the sense that they are often not how you want them to be - a real achievement for a novelist.
Captivating - Rated
On the basis of this captivating novel,Iceland has produced
another great crime novelist to rival the award-winning Arnaldur
Indridason. A wealthy German student of withcraft and sorcery is
brutally murdered in Reykjavik.His parents consider that the police
have arrested the wrong culprit and hire a female Icelandic lawyer
and German security man to investigate.Their meticulous enquiries
take them deep into the history of sorcery,whilst their own relationship grows.The effects of the dead man's dark interests on his friends is chillingly conveyed.This is an intelligent enthralling read,not without moments of humour.An early contender for Crime Novel of the Year
