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A review by theimportanceofbooks
Ice by Ulla-Lena Lundberg
4.0
This book bored me to death for the first three quarters then made me cry my eyes out in the last.
What I realised, after crying my eyes out, was that, whilst boring me, it was making me care about the characters without letting me realise it.
It was these very mundanities in the first two to three hundred pages, the milking of cows, the giving of sermons and raising of children, that made the characters so human and relatable, so that, anything that effects them, is going to have a sharp impact. I stuck with them for so long, I felt like I knew them. It made me remember the beauty in subtle storytelling.
What I realised, after crying my eyes out, was that, whilst boring me, it was making me care about the characters without letting me realise it.
It was these very mundanities in the first two to three hundred pages, the milking of cows, the giving of sermons and raising of children, that made the characters so human and relatable, so that, anything that effects them, is going to have a sharp impact. I stuck with them for so long, I felt like I knew them. It made me remember the beauty in subtle storytelling.