A review by breeann7
The Glass Devil by Helene Tursten

4.0

Glass Devil is very different than a typical American whodunit. There are a lot of things thrown at you that don't have anything to do with the main portion of the story. I am so used to reading the american version that it took me a while to really get into the book. Also of note the fact that the police were taking so seriously the Satanic aspect of murders was very difficult for me to believe, but maybe those sorts of things are different in other countries. The translation of the novel could have been better as well, I think some of the idioms weren't translated as well as they could have been.

On the plus side it was well written and intriguing. I believe that most of what you get out of a book has to do with what you come to the book with. You relate to certain novels and don't with others because of personal experience. I have had my own experience with a glass devil that relating to the story was not difficult. There are always those people who (while maybe not as talented as Dexter Morgan) are able to deceive those who see them publicly while they are completely different in private. I think Irene's realization at the end of the book regarding glass devils was very astute.

"A glass devil is a person in whom evil becomes transparent. People simply don't see it, despite the fact that it's there all the time. The side of himself that the devil shows, blinds people...And no one wants to see him either."