A review by obscuredbyclouds
Stallo by Stefan Spjut

2.0

This is a very unusual book, which in the end didn't really work for me, but I don't regret reading it. I enjoyed the reduced language and the writing is very Swedish (don't know how to explain that if I you don't know Sweden or the language), and I learned about Sami folklore. The first part of this book is "dark fantasy horror" and then it mostly becomes... crime... very slow crime. A thriller without the thrill. The strange thing is that it seems like the atmosphere was intentional. Everything seems extremely mundane, so that it becomes fascinating again. In the end however, it was just too slow for me & there was too much that felt like it needed to be cut.