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A review by reettis
Staalo by Stefan Spjut
3.0
In the beginning of the book, a young boy is having his own little adventure in the woods, all by himself. To me personally, there is something very familiar in that scene. That is how I spent most of my childhood, every detail hits a memory of some sort. But at the same time, there is something very scary about it... you know something bad is about to happen.
And it´s somehow very easy to believe, that in those endless forests there are mysterious creatures hiding. It is a very exciting thought experiment to wonder whether this could all be true. All the trolls, all the crazy humans. All the darkness and cold (yes, that much is certainly true). All those remote places, how much do we know actually? The atmosphere in this book was very realistic, everything was realistic actually, even the trolls. The story was addicting, the main characters slightly thin but very likable. Not so scary as I expected, just disgusting mostly. Very well cooked up story, but I would have wanted to know more about the trolls, about their personalities. About their relationships to humans. I would have wanted more depth into the story and the characters.
Philosophically thinking, there is always that gap between us humans and the rest of the natural world. A fence we cannot break. Yes, we can research and we can analyze, but we won´t ever understand everything. There will always be a mystery, a great place for stories and imagination. The writer has definitely embraced this thought while working on this book, that was the best part of this!
And it´s somehow very easy to believe, that in those endless forests there are mysterious creatures hiding. It is a very exciting thought experiment to wonder whether this could all be true. All the trolls, all the crazy humans. All the darkness and cold (yes, that much is certainly true). All those remote places, how much do we know actually? The atmosphere in this book was very realistic, everything was realistic actually, even the trolls. The story was addicting, the main characters slightly thin but very likable. Not so scary as I expected, just disgusting mostly. Very well cooked up story, but I would have wanted to know more about the trolls, about their personalities. About their relationships to humans. I would have wanted more depth into the story and the characters.
Philosophically thinking, there is always that gap between us humans and the rest of the natural world. A fence we cannot break. Yes, we can research and we can analyze, but we won´t ever understand everything. There will always be a mystery, a great place for stories and imagination. The writer has definitely embraced this thought while working on this book, that was the best part of this!