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cbg_reads 's review for:
The Lost House
by Melissa Larsen
adventurous
challenging
dark
mysterious
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
Two books about solving a murder, decades after it happens, thanks to the investigation of a young woman. One, We Keep the Dead Close, follows a student at Harvard who decides to take a crack at solving the death of an anthropology major in the 50s at the college (and is a true story!!) while the other, The Lost House, involves a woman going to her family homeland of Iceland with a true crime podcaster to find out, once and for all if her grandfather killed her grandmother (and is fiction).
The Lost House was my favorite of these two by far. First, I loved the cold winter setting of Iceland. Agnes, after suffering a devastating accident that has made walking painful and opioids her drug of choice and the death of her beloved grandfather, has come to rural Iceland to work with a podcaster in solving her grandmother’s murder. A task made more complicated by the recent disappearance of another young woman who looks almost identical to Agnes. This is the perfect isolation thriller, and it truly seems like so many people could be guilty of both or either murder throughout the book. It’s also an absolute coming of age story for Agnes, who is trying to find her place in two worlds that don’t seem to want her as a gay woman, someone with chronic pain, and a woman who doesn’t really know her place in her family. Towards the end I did figure out some of the twists, but not all and all in all I really loved this brand new thriller!
The Lost House was my favorite of these two by far. First, I loved the cold winter setting of Iceland. Agnes, after suffering a devastating accident that has made walking painful and opioids her drug of choice and the death of her beloved grandfather, has come to rural Iceland to work with a podcaster in solving her grandmother’s murder. A task made more complicated by the recent disappearance of another young woman who looks almost identical to Agnes. This is the perfect isolation thriller, and it truly seems like so many people could be guilty of both or either murder throughout the book. It’s also an absolute coming of age story for Agnes, who is trying to find her place in two worlds that don’t seem to want her as a gay woman, someone with chronic pain, and a woman who doesn’t really know her place in her family. Towards the end I did figure out some of the twists, but not all and all in all I really loved this brand new thriller!