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3.63 AVERAGE
3.63 AVERAGE
I sina bästa stunder är boken spännande, med intressanta karaktärer och oväntade händelser. I sina värsta stunder är den extrempt problematisk, grotesk och motbjudande. Jag blev stundtals fysiskt illamående och var tvungen att lägga ifrån mig boken. Lindqvist är dock en skicklig författare, och det grova innehållet åsido så är boken skickligt skriven.
I loved Lindqvist's Let the Right One In and quite liked Harbor, this one was better than Harbor. Creepy stuff with only hints of the supernatural, mostly near the beginning, this one ties into social media and reality TV, plus it's set in Sweden in the 90s/00s (which is, like, a different country). Well drawn characters, even though they some of them are so unusual that you'd think they'd be hard to identify with.
(Has some scenes of gory violence.)
(Has some scenes of gory violence.)
This was a lot of fun! But kind of like the last season of Buffy, and for many of the same reasons, it dropped off for me in the end.
Disappointing. Lot's of useless chapters that lead nowhere. I finished just to see what happened and let me save you the time. Nothing special here.
He does a great job of capturing the horror of childhood, the other kids, the fitting in, or not fitting in, the blind worship, the loneliness and alienation. Similarly to his other books, this feels Scandinavian without being forced, a dark fairy tale where the translation seems to have kept the otherwordly feel, the oddness, perfectly.
The only downside was that he almost got ABBA's 'Thank You For The Music' stuck in my head.
The only downside was that he almost got ABBA's 'Thank You For The Music' stuck in my head.
Another wasted effort, sounded very promising but was a let down. Unrealistic right from the start and adding teenage angst that turns into murderous psychosis was just ridiculous.