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3.4 AVERAGE
3.4 AVERAGE
Not bad. It wasn’t as dark as I had hoped. I’ll read more from this series.
Introduced unwarranted characters. Felt like the suspects were being lined up despite it being a murder mystery
mysterious
tense
dark
mysterious
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
dark
emotional
mysterious
tense
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
The prose was really basic, I just couldn’t get into it.
Fantastic sense of atmosphere - a freezing, isolated Icelandic town - and a good tangled mystery, but unfortunately there were just too many POVs and not enough of a straight line towards the investigation.
Something about the writing here didn’t land - it felt fairly clunky. Dialogue was used to explain much that could have been explained through action sequences.
I don’t know if it was the translation or what, but this just didn’t work for me.
Something about the writing here didn’t land - it felt fairly clunky. Dialogue was used to explain much that could have been explained through action sequences.
I don’t know if it was the translation or what, but this just didn’t work for me.
mysterious
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
N/A
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
I'm sure I read this one. I recall liking the setting and premise.
Þessi var nú bara býsna áhugaverð. Þarna var plott sem ég sá ekki fyrr, athyglisverðir karakterar, svolítið gallaður lögreglumaður (þeir eru sjaldnast öðruvísi) og nógu mikil spenna til að halda mér við efnið. Þá var bókin ágætlega lesin sem er alltaf kostur. Þótt mér hafi líkað fyrsta bók Ragnars hefur hann þarna tekið nokkrum framförum þótt enn eigi hann nokkuð í land til að ná bókunum um Huldu og síðustu bókunum um Ara.