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A review by kiwikathleen
Snowblind by Ragnar Jónasson
3.0
I can state categorically that I will never visit Iceland. My wandering days are done, my adventuring spirit is long in the past, my financial situation is irrecoverable (that makes everything sound worse than it is, but there's nothing like a little hyperbole every now and then). However, I can visit anywhere in the world, and beyond, through books and so I enjoyed this trip to Iceland very much indeed. One of the best parts of it is that I could shiver in my imagination, unlike poor Ari Thór who idiotically found himself in one of the most remote parts of the island in the depths of winter and being cold and depressed.
Ari is a bit of an idiot. I mean, who accepts a job in an almost inaccessible location hours away from your home into which your gorgeous girlfriend has only recently moved, and without even thinking of asking her opinion?! Maybe it's the cold - it makes sensible thinking a difficult proposition. I mean, I'm sure I wouldn't be able to function in those temperatures. BUT, he was inside the house at a reasonable temperature and she was in the next room.
Anyway, Ari's lack of thought aside, I enjoyed this book. There are plenty of interesting characters, and I didn't even get them muddled up despite being unable to pronounce their names (I find I have to make a decision, right or wrong, and stick to it - otherwise I fumble to a stop every time I read one of them), there is more than one body, there's a not-necessarily-perfect ending but a resolution nevertheless, and there's the scenery.
My son is looking for a police procedural novel that doesn't do all the personal and social stuff. He'd have got impatient with this book. I, on the other hand, am going to put #2 on my to-read list because I want to know how Ari deals with his personal life (in which he keeps making more mistakes).
Ari is a bit of an idiot. I mean, who accepts a job in an almost inaccessible location hours away from your home into which your gorgeous girlfriend has only recently moved, and without even thinking of asking her opinion?! Maybe it's the cold - it makes sensible thinking a difficult proposition. I mean, I'm sure I wouldn't be able to function in those temperatures. BUT, he was inside the house at a reasonable temperature and she was in the next room.
Anyway, Ari's lack of thought aside, I enjoyed this book. There are plenty of interesting characters, and I didn't even get them muddled up despite being unable to pronounce their names (I find I have to make a decision, right or wrong, and stick to it - otherwise I fumble to a stop every time I read one of them), there is more than one body, there's a not-necessarily-perfect ending but a resolution nevertheless, and there's the scenery.
My son is looking for a police procedural novel that doesn't do all the personal and social stuff. He'd have got impatient with this book. I, on the other hand, am going to put #2 on my to-read list because I want to know how Ari deals with his personal life (in which he keeps making more mistakes).