this was my first Icelandic novel, I picked one at random just to understand the fuss about Nordic authors and I wasn't disappointed. However, all the "minor" stories combined with the main plot could sometimes be a little bit confusing at the beginning, in particular the details about the detect...
If this were the first book I'd read by this author, I wouldn't have bothered reading any more by him. Fortunately I had read and enjoyed a couple of others, which apparently were written after this earlier attempt. This wasn't really poorly written in the sense of the writing style itself, but...