I loved this book! The Icelandic connection was the hook that got me to buy the book, but I thoroughly enjoyed the characters and plot as well. I was especially taken with the language, both the author's and the Icelandic language. I agree with another reviewer that the ending was perhaps too abr...
Yes, the occasion made me nervous, with its echoes of our welcome-to-Gimli disaster party six years earlier. But I was a different person now. The girl who turned the cartwheel was Before Freya. Now I was After Freya, a restrained, contained shadow of my former self. Expect no fateful gymnastics,...