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3.81 AVERAGE
3.81 AVERAGE
adventurous
dark
tense
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
Fantastic! I could hardly put this book down. More compelling than The Red Breast, the other Nesbo book I've read. For some reason, sexual deviance seems to be at the heart of every mystery I read these days, which is disturbing, but that's neither here nor there.
The Harry Hole series keeps getting better, despite the fact that I have trouble keeping track of all the Scandinavian names. Nesbo is creative and original with his mysteries.
Even tho this was the first Nesbo book I had pegged correctly from early on, it is still one of my favorites from the author. As with his others, there was plenty of misdirection, suspense, and general creepiness. I also typically enjoy his social insights...and now the phone is ringing, so I guess that's the end of this review.
Inspector Harry Hole lands an ominous missing persons case and quickly makes a connection to a dozen other cases over the past decade: married women with children, never found, and the presence of creepy snowmen near the site where the women were last seen. When the perpetrator gets bolder and starts incorporating dismembered body parts in his snow sculptures, Hole knows Oslo has a serial killer on the loose.
What follows is a masterfully suspenseful and circuitous investigation that leads to many plausible suspects and treads a familiar path into Hole’s personal life, as all Nesbø mysteries seem to do. This one, however, is particularly sinister and chilling, with a fittingly traumatic finale rooted in narratives begun several book installments previously. As crime novels go, this one is dark, smart, and abundantly satisfying.
What follows is a masterfully suspenseful and circuitous investigation that leads to many plausible suspects and treads a familiar path into Hole’s personal life, as all Nesbø mysteries seem to do. This one, however, is particularly sinister and chilling, with a fittingly traumatic finale rooted in narratives begun several book installments previously. As crime novels go, this one is dark, smart, and abundantly satisfying.
Decisamente troppa carne al fuoco in questo thriller norvegese. Il lettore viene condotto in strane circonvoluzioni, attraverso storie che a fatica si incastrano le une nelle altre, racconta dettagliatamente cose che poi a malapena servono a qualcosa nell'econimia della trama, finché, quando ormai da tempo il lettore ha capito chi è l'assassino, l'autore cerca di sbrogliare la matassa raccontando di nuovo la storia dal punto di vista dell'assassino stesso, scomodando nel frattempo un po' troppe malattie genetiche e un po' troppo DNA.
Too slow paced for me and has cringe descriptions of women that made me feel like I was listening to a scum bag narrated his moments in a strip club.
adventurous
dark
tense
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
as far as modern detective novels go this one was pretty good! my first foray into scandinoir and i will continue to delve deeper. the end had so many twists it felt like the episode of community where jeff makes up the fake conspiracy theories class
