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challenging
dark
emotional
mysterious
reflective
sad
slow-paced
3.5
TW/CW: Sexual assault, murder, terminal illness, death of a parent, death of a child, automobile accident
RATING: 3.5/5
REVIEW: I received a free copy of this book from NetGalley and am voluntarily writing an honest review.
Blaze Me The Sun is the story of a Swedish writer who returns to his hometown and starts investigating a series of murders that happened thirty years before. Most of the book is a story within a story – telling of the murders that the writer is investigating.
I have very mixed feelings about this book. On the one hand, the actual murder mystery was interesting. I figured it out ahead of time, but that’s okay, it happens.
My problems start with the writing. The writing itself was grammatically fine. But I found myself, as the book progressed, becoming entirely bored by the tedious tangents that this book continuously went off on. It was very, very wordy and overly flowery, and that weighed down the book a lot for me and made it feel very, very slow. I honestly thing that taking a hundred pages out of this book in tangents and ‘philosophizing’ would have made this a much better read. It was clear that the book was trying to be ‘deep’ into things such as good and evil, but really it just seemed kind of silly. I really wish that Carlsson had just stuck to the story – it had good bones and could have been a lot better than it turned out to be.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Sexual assault, Death, and Murder
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