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Blood on Snow
by Jo Nesbø
challenging
dark
emotional
sad
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
Complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
‘I fix people.’ This is the job summary of our main character. Only his fixing is of a more permanent nature. And like many, he hates his job and only stumbled into it because of who he knew, and one severely gross misunderstanding. But now it owns him, and he’s determined to make a drastic change, to escape the vicious circle, to have love—though he is clueless as to what love means.
Told from the perspective of a deranged hit man, we get the unreliable and delusional tale of his reformation—even if it is only in his daydreams.
It’s a Nordic Noir—dark, cold, gory, morbid, an overall depressing piece of gangster autobiography—but it reads like mid-twentieth American literature in places: a bit Holden Caulfield, a bit Hemingway, doses of the awkward damaged insanity of Vonnegut or Heller.
The subject matter is grim all the way through, but this ending is <i>almost</i> a happily ever after…
Told from the perspective of a deranged hit man, we get the unreliable and delusional tale of his reformation—even if it is only in his daydreams.
It’s a Nordic Noir—dark, cold, gory, morbid, an overall depressing piece of gangster autobiography—but it reads like mid-twentieth American literature in places: a bit Holden Caulfield, a bit Hemingway, doses of the awkward damaged insanity of Vonnegut or Heller.
The subject matter is grim all the way through, but this ending is <i>almost</i> a happily ever after…