piepieb 's review for:

Last Rituals by Yrsa Sigurðardóttir

3.0

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The synopsis of this first Thora Gudmundsdottir mystery sounded really good, but heads-up the story inside is really gory. I usually don't mind "gory-ness," but this is pretty explicit. Gross-ness aside, the historical aspects, including witchcraft, were interesting. I was interested in Iceland, and I wish this story included more of the landscape and that I had more of a feeling that I was reading an Icelandic novel -- maybe that was lost in translation, though.

All in all, this was okay... I will give this series one more chance and hope that the next book is better.