Tag: 2 Star Reviews

After a drunken evening with former girlfriend Anna Bethsen, Police Detective Harry Hole wakes up at home with a headache, no cell phone, and no memory of the past twelve hours. The same day, Anna is found shot dead in her bedroom, making Hole a prime suspect in the investigation led by his hated adversary, Tom Waaler. Meanwhile, the bank robberies continue with unparalleled savagery, sending rogue detective Hole from the streets of Oslo to steaming Brazil in a race to close two cases and clear his name. But Waaler isn’t finished with his longtime nemesis quite yet.

This book is the 4th book in the “Harry Hole” series. Even thou you don’t need to read this series in a chronological order, I still choice to do it just to keep things simple for myself.

I need to say that this book was much better than the 3th book in this series. But so far I kept struggling through this and the previous 2 books in this series hoping that it would get better.

The plot here was intriguing when Harry Hole is framed as a murder. But still the majority of the plot is flat, uninteresting and boring at times. Which really disappointed me further.

This book has two bad guys in its plot, which are a bank robber and a murder framing Harry Hole for murders which actually were done by the murder himself. Which means that there were a lot o things happening in this book, which made it somehow hard to following the events in this book and keep track of everything.

This book first started as saying more or less that the bank robber and the murderer were two different people, but then it quickly got to the point were the bad guy here framed Harry Hole for being both the bank robber and the murderer which I really made it hard for me to wrap my head over how the bad guy could have done that shit.

The characters in this book were on the premise of being good characters, which really hurt me in a way, because you could see that Jo Nesbø was trying to make them good but somehow missed the mark by few inches.

The writing style was good, which means that it was much better than in the previous book. And it somehow made me hope that with this book you see the light of this series becoming better than the 2nd and 3rd book in this series.

I Give This Book 2 / 5

When the Norwegian ambassador to Thailand is found dead in a Bangkok brothel, Inspector Harry Hole is dispatched from Oslo to help hush up the case. But once he arrives Harry discovers that this case is about much more than one random murder. There is something else, something more pervasive, scrabbling around behind the scenes. Or, put another way, for every cockroach you see in your hotel room, there are hundreds behind the walls. Surrounded by round-the-clock traffic noise, Harry wanders the streets of Bangkok lined with go-go bars, temples, opium dens, and tourist traps, trying to piece together the story of the ambassador’s death even though no one asked him to, and no one wants him to—not even Harry himself.

This book is the second book in the “Harry Hole” series written by Jo Nesbø. I loved the first book in this series, but this book wasn’t nearly as good as the first book in this series.

This book takes place in Thailand after a Norwegian ambassador is found dead in a brothel in Thailand. The Norwegian ambassador which was found was best buddies with a high positioned politician in Norway, so of course there was a lot of pressure put on Harry Hole.

The beginning of this book was very good, because we didn’t know what was happening, but as this book kept going it began going more and more down the hill for me personally.

However the plot itself was solid as well as the writing. But the twist at the could have been bigger and better in my opinion. Because I felt like there was something missing in the twist at the end.

I personally found the plot to be very unrealistic and confusing which really disappointed me a lot after the first book in this series was so great in my opinion.

The characters (expect of harry hole) were very flat and boring in a way. And I found myself not caring about them at all, and I was less interested in Harry Hole less interesting than in the first book. Which really made me take away some points from the final review of this book.

This book had also a lot of subplots which really made me uninterested because I picked up this book to follow harry hole on his journey of solving a murder instead of getting mini lectures about money-exchange, international business, politics in the police rankings, political power struggle and finance. If I wanted to get to know about these subplots I would pick up a nonfiction books about these topics and not learn about them from a mystery book.

I Give This Book 2 / 5

When the National Security Agency’s invincible code-breaking machine encounters a mysterious code it cannot break, the agency calls its head cryptographer, Susan Fletcher, a brilliant and beautiful mathematician. What she uncovers sends shock waves through the corridors of power. The NSA is being held hostage… not by guns or bombs, but by a code so ingeniously complex that if released it would cripple U.S. intelligence.

I had some expectations for this book which it didn’t live up to. Ive seen a lot of people call this book “excellent techno-thriller” which really got me excited to read this book, which turns out to not be the truth.

Sometimes the technological digressions in this book is simply too much, and it pretty much hard to keep track of it and why things are happening because of it.

The beginning of this book was very good because it was very interesting and it was fun and interesting to figure out what was happening in this little chaotic beginning. 

However the longer you dive into this book the worse it becomes, because it quickly becomes boring and the entire plot revolves around a software program which really wasn’t something very exciting.

After fishing this book, I noticed that all of the main characters in Dan Brown’s novel are very good looking, like a top model good looking. Which really should be answered by Dan Brown on why he does that.

When it comes to the characters in this book, well there isn’t a lot to say about them. They are interesting at first but the more we get to know them, we notice that they are very shallow and not so bright if it isn’t a last minute knowledge illumination.  

Another thing which annoyed me about the characters is that we get one woman and the rest of the recurring characters are men. We get 2 other female characters in this book which we only see for couple of pages. But the point is that this book is 99.8 % only men characters. And as you can expected all of the men characters in this book are running after the main character who is a female and trying to get to have sex with her more or less.

There are many times where the plot focuses more on the software program than on anything else. Which really annoyed me because I understand that, that software program is a big deal in this book but why not focus on the action or something else than only on the software program.

The writing style isn’t the best. Ive read one book from Dan Brown before going into this one, and well the writing style when it comes to Dan Brown or this book really don’t live to the fact that some people call him one of the greatest living authors. 

I Give This Book 2 / 5