phdoingmydamnbest 's review for:

Wolf Winter by Cecilia Ekbäck

1.0

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So my mammy's friend lent me this book because she'd read it through her book club and thought I might be interested in it, and I can see why this is such a good choice for a book club, even if it wasn't really my thing. The story is something like Arthur Miller's 'The Crucible' meets Marcus Sedgwick's 'Revolver', it's a story about uncertainty and the fear that comes in small, isolated communities from uncertainty. It's actually really well written, in that the reader feels the same kind of confusion and frustration as events unfold as the characters do mirroring their journey of unsettled uncertainty. The author is from Sweden and her parents are from Lapland and it was actually pretty fabulous to read something obviously so enriched with her childhood memories of Sweden. Unfortunately, the book just didn't grip me, I prefer faster moving plots and the glacial (both figurative and literal) uncertain pace of this book didn't do it for me. However, I thought it was only fair that I write a review so that people would know what to expect from what is a book with depth, which unfortunately just didn't suit my personal tastes and so ended up getting one star.

Happy reading folks, always happy to take/give recommendations as always.
Book love,
Grace