A review by diesmali
Stallo by Stefan Spjut

4.0

The story begin with how a woman brings her young son to a small cabin in the deep woods for a summer vacation. With this opening chapter the author sets a brilliant, chilling and eerie mood, as the reader is infused with a sense of wild nature and mysticism. But then the writing takes on another tone entirely. What follows is a more plain detective story, told from two sides of the mystery. The reader rather soon learns what the story is really about. The author manages to keep things interesting to the end, with a pretty unique tale, but as a reader I cannot help but lament the loss of the tone from the opening pages. After my initial disappointment I was still engaged enough to enjoy the story, and the author manages to finish in a satisfying way, an end without too much closure.