Category: Book review

Oslo in November. The first snow of the season has fallen. A boy named Jonas wakes in the night to find his mother gone. Out his window, in the cold moonlight, he sees the snowman that inexplicably appeared in the yard earlier in the day. Around its neck is his mother’s pink scarf. Hole suspects a link between a menacing letter he’s received and the disappearance of Jonas’s mother – and of perhaps a dozen other women, all of whom went missing on the day of a first snowfall. As his investigation deepens, something else emerges: he is becoming a pawn in an increasingly terrifying game whose rules are devised – and constantly revised – by the killer.

This book is the 7th book in the “Harry Hole” series, and in my opinion this book is the best book in this series so far, but I have still a few books from this series to read. 

The plot in this book was very interesting and enjoyable. There was a lot of thing happening in this book, and from start to finish you were left sitting on the edge of your sit because of the tension which was going on this book. 

The plot was very intense because of everything which was happening in this book and I personally loved it. The plot in this book really shines bright in this whole “Harry Hole” series. 

The characters here are amazing, each character in this book is very unique and have something which sets them apart from the rest of the character. When it comes to Harry Hole, he truly shines in this book and for me personally in this book he is more than a drunk who is a police detective. 

The writing style in this book is very good, because its like the author know what words to use to completely suck me into this book and to not let me go until the very end of this book.  Which I truly love when it happens in books. 

When it comes to the ending of this book, and the whole process of catching the killer is very intestate and big. And wow, I’m just left speechless after reading the ending of this book because it was so amazing. 

This book also made me somehow paranoid about snow mans, because if I’m gonna see a snow man in real life from this moment on, I will think about this book and about the killer in this book. 

I Give This Book 5 / 5

Dr. Timothy Ryan, head of the military psychiatric unit at Grantham Barracks, is meeting a new patient, a woman known as Prisoner Alpha. As she is being transferred, they are attacked by assassins, barely escaping with their lives. One shooter vanishes, leaving behind a dead companion unlike anyone Ryan has ever seen.

I didn’t know anything about this book before getting into it, and because of it I didn’t have any expectations for this book. Which I think its important to say before we officially begin this review of this book.

The beginning of this book was somehow interesting, it for sure piqued my interesting and made me think that this book could be very interesting if its properly begins, which didn’t happen. 

However I need to give this book some few extra points for having a very intriguing premise for a plot. It didn’t live up to the premise but it still at the core of it, this book had a good and intriguing intriguing.

The chapters in this book were very short, which really made me annoyed because the new chapter would start with different perspectives before you could figure out what was happening in the previous chapter you were reading.

The characters here in my opinion were very shallow, and flat. And I just couldn’t find the will in myself to care about them or to even like them. Which is a big no-no for me personally. Because for me personally the characters are as important as the plot and tension in a book. 

One of the main things which really pissed me off in this book, were that the female characters were portrayed as sex objects rather than humans. The female characters would get called very frequently as “bitch”, “full of sex-appeal” and whatever else you can imagine. 

The writing style here felt like it was written by a first time writer, but from what ive seen on Goodreads the author of this book have written a handful of books before this one, so I don’t know why this book felt like it was the first book of this author. 

I Give This Book 1 / 5

Christmas shoppers stop to hear a Salvation Army concert on a crowded Oslo street. A gunshot cuts through the music and the bitter cold: one of the singers falls dead, shot in the head at point-blank range. Harry Hole—the Oslo Police Department’s best investigator and worst civil servant—has little to work with: no suspect, no weapon, and no motive. But Harry’s troubles will multiply. As the search closes in, the killer becomes increasingly desperate, and Harry’s chase takes him to the most forbidden corners of the former Yugoslavia.

In my opinion this book is the best book so far in this series, and of course we are talking about the “Harry Hole” series. This book is the 6th book in this series.

The mystery in this book is very engaging and interesting which really makes you sit at the edge of whatever you are siting on. However this mystery in this book has the same issues as some of the previous books in this series. Which is that when Harry is in the midst of investigation its super interesting but the moment Harry does something which doesn’t involve the investigation to catch the murderer then it suddenly becomes boring in a way. 

The plot here is interesting and enjoyable but as said above it has some down turns here and there which really made me not fully aboard with it. But the premise of a person killing a person on the stage and no one knew who that was is really creepy to me because my brain instantly goes to someone from “league of shadows” (batman reverse).

The plot in this book takes Harry to dark corners of the former Yugoslavia, which of course makes it more interesting because we get to see it from Harry’s perspective which makes fun. 

The characters in this book are pretty all over the place. Because I truly love Harry Hole as a main character but some of the side characters in this book weren’t as good of characters as Harry is. 

The writing style here was very good, its like the author knew what words to use to fully grab my attention and to not let it go until the very end.

I Give This Book 4 / 5

Alicia Berenson’s life is seemingly perfect. A famous painter married to an in-demand fashion photographer, she lives in a grand house with big windows overlooking a park in one of London’s most desirable areas. One evening her husband Gabriel returns home late from a fashion shoot, and Alicia shoots him five times in the face, and then never speaks another word.

I personally had high hopes for this book because I’ve heard so much good about this book. And well after reading this book I have to say that this book isn’t as good as people say it is.

While reading this book I needed to force myself to finish this book because even thou I didn’t like this book, I don’t like DNF-ing books.

The characters in this book were very bad, the main character here Theo Faber, was the best character in this entire book because he had much more personality than the other characters in this book, but I still didn’t like him. Because at one point in this book he finds out that his wife have cheated on him countless times but he still didn’t face the issue with his wife but rather swept it under the rug like it was his wife forgetting to throw out a candy wrapper. 

All the female characters in this book were full of stereotypes which most of the times lead to things involving misogyny. Which of course is a big no for me personally. 

The plot in this book was bad, it had few good moments in the beginning but the further you get into this book the worse it becomes. The plot in this book was for the most part very flat, shallow and uninteresting which is a really bad combination of a what a plot can be.

The beginning of this book was actually interesting in a way, but as said above, the further you got into this book the more you wanted to throw this book into a fire and ask yourself why you spend time and money on this book.

The ending here was very terrible, because the whole book was building onto the feeling that the ending will be incredible and big, but when you get to the ending you get very disappointed and you are like “thats what happened ? That’s bull shit”.

The writing style in this book felt like I was written by a teenager who wanted to be the next Stephen King. The writing style was very straight forward and it was leaving nothing to wonder about but rather it told us “thats how it is, the end of the story”. 

I Give This Book 1 / 5