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The Night House
by Jo Nesbø
Review to come, but suffice to say I didn't enjoy this novel
I usually don't read reviews before reading a novel or else my mind could be taken to that direction but after reading and making a review I will go read and sometimes even add stuff to my review because "well thinking about it..."
This time I bought this book when I Was in Ireland. Having heard great things of Jo Nesbo police thriller series I Thought I should try this one since I do prefer horror but having seen a rating of 3.3 I thought , I should be worried. I've read the book and my rating is 2 stars or 33/100.
First of all, don't know why someone flagged his book as LGBT Characters when there is only one and is participation is almost nil, like 5 lines and boring ones - but okay to each it's own.
So, let's go to the review, We follow a young child (Richard) as he tries to uncover what is happening in that small town since several children are disappearing and they are blaming on him. This is the blunt of the novel. The part two is, spoiler stuff so I won't go there for now but sure is the reason I didn't enjoy the novel as much as I should have.
Positive
1) The flow of the story is pretty fast which helped since I was not enjoying that much so it didn't take that much to read the novel.
2) The first part has horror elements nicely done and right from the start you know something is wrong and it builds up
3) Richard as a character grows as a bully to someone concern with the people around them
Criticisms/Negatives
1) If Richard grow and we have to acknowledge that, I can also acknowledge that being a bully you have two cliches, one - he is a bully because life is hard and is a way to defend themselves, or usually they have dark secret or regret or shame and it's a way to keep it that way. Richard is a mix of both - but since this is told in the first person perspective and he gives hints about it, I can forgive that - a bit
2) The second part (or is third?)- spoiler - is, well remember what you read? Well probably all in your imagination. This part felt confusing and un-appealing to me. It's like , yeah the boyo was crazy and everything was in his imagination - writing - movie, whatever. You get the feeling, what did it happen?
3) Almost all characters are flat, non-existing, one dimensional that exist just to help the plot goes foward, the romance is cringe.
So, overall I did enjoy the beginning but the ending really made me feel uninvested. Just that.
Let me just comment another review:
" The book at times feels incredibly outdated with it's fatphobic remarks and it's comments drenched in misogyny. " as someone said - well , this is set in the early 80's so it's is a nice addition or do you want your books from the early years of the twenty to have characters with your ideals? This is someone who doesn't understand how books are written. The author is different from the character , you know that? So it's normal to have a character that doesn't behave, well as you expected. That's what makes the books interesting.
I usually don't read reviews before reading a novel or else my mind could be taken to that direction but after reading and making a review I will go read and sometimes even add stuff to my review because "well thinking about it..."
This time I bought this book when I Was in Ireland. Having heard great things of Jo Nesbo police thriller series I Thought I should try this one since I do prefer horror but having seen a rating of 3.3 I thought , I should be worried. I've read the book and my rating is 2 stars or 33/100.
First of all, don't know why someone flagged his book as LGBT Characters when there is only one and is participation is almost nil, like 5 lines and boring ones - but okay to each it's own.
So, let's go to the review, We follow a young child (Richard) as he tries to uncover what is happening in that small town since several children are disappearing and they are blaming on him. This is the blunt of the novel. The part two is, spoiler stuff so I won't go there for now but sure is the reason I didn't enjoy the novel as much as I should have.
Positive
1) The flow of the story is pretty fast which helped since I was not enjoying that much so it didn't take that much to read the novel.
2) The first part has horror elements nicely done and right from the start you know something is wrong and it builds up
3) Richard as a character grows as a bully to someone concern with the people around them
Criticisms/Negatives
1) If Richard grow and we have to acknowledge that, I can also acknowledge that being a bully you have two cliches, one - he is a bully because life is hard and is a way to defend themselves, or usually they have dark secret or regret or shame and it's a way to keep it that way. Richard is a mix of both - but since this is told in the first person perspective and he gives hints about it, I can forgive that - a bit
2) The second part (or is third?)- spoiler - is, well remember what you read? Well probably all in your imagination. This part felt confusing and un-appealing to me. It's like , yeah the boyo was crazy and everything was in his imagination - writing - movie, whatever. You get the feeling, what did it happen?
3) Almost all characters are flat, non-existing, one dimensional that exist just to help the plot goes foward, the romance is cringe.
So, overall I did enjoy the beginning but the ending really made me feel uninvested. Just that.
Let me just comment another review:
" The book at times feels incredibly outdated with it's fatphobic remarks and it's comments drenched in misogyny. " as someone said - well , this is set in the early 80's so it's is a nice addition or do you want your books from the early years of the twenty to have characters with your ideals? This is someone who doesn't understand how books are written. The author is different from the character , you know that? So it's normal to have a character that doesn't behave, well as you expected. That's what makes the books interesting.