A review by realityczar
The Susan Effect by Peter Høeg

5.0

This is not his best book—not even top three—but his writing is delightful enough to earn all the stars. As others will point out, the science is weak in places (though I will attribute much error to translation) and the tone is a bit single note, but the joy and tension he delivers in his characters’ simultaneous superhuman mastery and their abject vulnerability keeps the pages turning in a way that few authors can compel.

“Her eyes, as ever, contain elements of train wrecks and maritime disasters. And some smidgeon of religious ecstasy.”

Go read Smilla’s Sense of Snow or The Quiet Girl or The Elephant Keeper’s Children. But don’t skip the Susan Effect.