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A review by maggiebook
The Ice Princess by Camilla Läckberg
1.0
This book promised to be a gruesome murder mystery which is not my genre but it was the book club pick for this month so I decided to give it a shot. The murder mystery is lackluster and takes a back seat to the author's obvious issues with any woman not skinny and beautiful or at least working to be skinny and beautiful.
I had so many issues with this book that had nothing to do with the plot. It is the first book that I couldn't focus on because I kept wondering if the author ever had a real female friendship.
Within the first 100 pages she trashes just about every woman in the book. When a woman asked our main character how she is doing after discovering the body of a former friend. The author spends an entire paragraph explaining how this woman is over weight and how disgusting she finds her. I think the author was trying to paint the woman as a busy body or town gossip but instead she wanted us to not like her because she was over weight! Another woman's whole description is 'ugly duckling' which is the basis for her being unlovable and angry.
Our main character estimates the weight watcher points for everything she eats which I believe was to let us know that she is working to be thin so we should all admire her for this. When she goes to see the dead woman's husband she is happy that she fixed herself up before arriving as the husband is good looking. REALLY!
After 134 pages I skimmed the rest of the book to just get the mystery solved. It was anti-climatic and did not save the book for me.
I had so many issues with this book that had nothing to do with the plot. It is the first book that I couldn't focus on because I kept wondering if the author ever had a real female friendship.
Within the first 100 pages she trashes just about every woman in the book. When a woman asked our main character how she is doing after discovering the body of a former friend. The author spends an entire paragraph explaining how this woman is over weight and how disgusting she finds her. I think the author was trying to paint the woman as a busy body or town gossip but instead she wanted us to not like her because she was over weight! Another woman's whole description is 'ugly duckling' which is the basis for her being unlovable and angry.
Our main character estimates the weight watcher points for everything she eats which I believe was to let us know that she is working to be thin so we should all admire her for this. When she goes to see the dead woman's husband she is happy that she fixed herself up before arriving as the husband is good looking. REALLY!
After 134 pages I skimmed the rest of the book to just get the mystery solved. It was anti-climatic and did not save the book for me.