A review by becasaur27
Reykjavík: A Crime Story by Ragnar Jónasson, Katrín Jakobsdóttir

adventurous dark tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

3.75

I came across this book a bit ago. Pretty sure it was an NPR book concierge pick that either interviewed the author or just talked about the author (there are two authors for this book, but I became interested in it in part due to the female Icelandic prime minister author). I went to Iceland in 2018 and loved it! So, I was interested in the setting and I thought it was cool that the prime minister had written this book. I was primed to like this book. And I did like it, but I don't think I'd necessarily recommend it to others. I thought its portrayal of and stance on women was a bit off. I recognize that this was also a not modern setting, so perhaps that was being shown somewhat through the women's viewpoints and such, but overall women were very tradwifey. And that is/was the expectation. Yeah, sure there are some women who are students, and that is fine, but it seemed the expectation was that if they went out and got jobs and got married then they would still do all the tradwife things as well as whatever else. No queer representation. IDK. Like I said, I still liked the book, but it just didn't have any of the extras that make me really like a book.