A review by kori_krc
The Chestnut Man by Søren Sveistrup

1.0

I'm not sure if it was the story, the translation, or the fact that I listened to this on audiobook instead of actually reading the pages, but this just did not work for me. It felt slow and a lot of it felt unnecessary. I wanted it to be creepier and more of a mystery but I just felt like we didn't really get any clues until the very end when everything was revealed. I didn't have any connection to the characters, they were hard to keep separate, and at the end of the day, I just didn't really care what happened to any of them. The climax of the book was interesting and exciting and caught my attention but it quickly fizzled once it was over. I just couldn't give it more than a 1.5 just because the climax grabbed my attention, and the fact that it took that long to get there also really put me off.