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Jak ulovit malou štiku

Juhani Karila

4.34 AVERAGE

jenni_t_reads's review against another edition

4.0

funny hopeful reflective medium-paced

nightbeliever's review against another edition

5.0

adventurous emotional funny mysterious medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Loveable characters: Yes

rettnord's review against another edition

5.0

The book was received from NetGalley in exchange for an honest review

A young woman from Lapland is coming home every summer because she needs to fish a pike out of a pond near her childhood home. What happens if she doesn't? Supernatural creatures of variable cuteness and lots of introspection, apparently.

I don't want to give up any more spoilers, so let's just jump straight to the conclusion: this book has been an absolute delight from start to finish. I'm not sure why so many reviewers call it a love story, unless they mean love a person has for their neighbours, their childhood home or possible an adorable little monster. Then sure, otherwise it's more of a magical realism book, but without any horror tropes so often associated with magical realism this days. This is your summer-reading-hygge-on-a-lake-in-northern-europe magical realism, and we all need more books like this in our lives.