Far-fetched and ridiculously convoluted - in the end, I couldn't have cared less who murdered whom or why. This book is full of cliches. The heroine is completely unbelievable as a lawyer and should surely have been arrested for interfering with the investigation of a murder. This must be why ...
Till en början är jag mycket nöjd med att följa med i en deckare då jag tidigare lyssnat på lite tyngre ljudböcker innan. Jag gillar hur författaren väver in en känsla av thriller och bitvis en smula av övernaturlighet. Efter halva boken har jag tappat lite av intresset då Yrsa drar ur på histori...
The tone of Siguroardottir's series so far is one of Bridget Jones meets Harry Hole. Not surprisingly, it doesn't work all that well. Thora is the kind of flighty personality that would be right at home in the chicklit genre. I appreciate that she isn't a dark, damaged character - in fact, after ...
The subtitle of this novel is “a ghost story,” and so it is. I can’t remember when I last read a novel that was so whole-heartedly about ghosts. Some books have a touch here and there of the supernatural – but this is flat-out a suspenseful horror tale with a touch of mystery. And it’s quite a lo...
OMG - this is absolutely brilliant! A nice, grounded thriller - with a twist of ghost genre as well! This is a departure from the author's crime detective series, (ie. with Thora [= solictor/lawyer] as the sleuth)and it really works, with a new cast of characters, a bleak, cold, deathly backdro...
I have read and liked several of Yrsa's other books. I pre-ordered this one and read reviews while I waited for it to arrive. I did not heed the warnings to read this during the day (or at least, not right before going to bed) and consequently had to sleep with the lights on 3 nights in a row. Ho...
Many eons ago I had to do one of those elementary school "country reports" and I was assigned Iceland. I found it awesomely fascinating and still remember a surprisingly bit of what I learned. So I was quite attracted to fiction set in Iceland. And of course, this has the added lure of the who...