Harry Hole returns in the eleventh installment of the author’s best-selling, electrifying crime fiction series—published in 48 languages, more than 30 million copies sold worldwide. In Police—the last novel featuring Jo Nesbø’s hard-bitten, maverick Oslo detective—a killer wreaking revenge on the police had Harry Hole fighting for the safety of the people closest to him. Now, in The Thirst, the story continues as Harry is inextricably drawn back into the Oslo police force. A serial murderer has begun targeting Tinder daters—a murderer whose MO reignites Harry’s hunt for a nemesis of his past.
This book is the 11th book in the “Harry Hole” series, and at the time of the writing this review there are 2 more books in this series I need to read before I am officially or temporarily finished with this series.
This book was a real disappointment for me, because as I was reading this book it felt like it would never end. In my opinion this book way too long then it needed to be, and it has a lot of moments where they don’t lead the plot anywhere.
I don’t know if it is just me being too harsh about the latest books in this series book I think that at least the 2 previous book are about the same thing as this one. Here I mean that Harry is the edge of demise, on the edge of losing his job but then he miraculously find the solution who the killer is and doest meet his demise at the end of the book. I don’t know if Jo Nesbø meant for Harry Hole to be find himself in a corner and make him grasp for outrageous solutions to dig him out of the trouble. Or if it its Jo Nesbø who is tried of the series and doesn’t have any more ideas of unique plots for the new books and instead uses the themes and solutions which worked in previous Harry Hole books.
The plot in this book isn’t the best and it isn’t unique because I have read a books or watch a movies / shows with identical plot. Which really pissed me of because I really started to think that this series is starting to go down heal. At the same time, there is too much happening in this book in my opinion. Which really makes it hard and confusing to follow everything which happens in this book. The author could easily split this book in 2 shorter books which would only make the story better.
The characters in this book aren’t the great as they were in the previous books in this series. Ever since the first book I’ve read in this series, I always loved Harry Hole as the main character. But in this book he doesn’t feel like the same character from earlier in this series. In this book Harry feels very wrong and he makes the worst and most stupid decisions ever. Its like he is actively trying to fuck up his life just for shit and giggles.
The writing style in this book was very good, which was the best thing about this book in my opinion. Because in a way it is much better than what it was in the previous books in this series.
I don’t know if it is just me, but I felt like women in this book was shitty described. Since this book makes it seem like what defines a women’s worth is her looks and nothing else. Which really didn’t sit well with me because you can use the same argument against men too which this book didn’t.
I Give This Book 2 / 5
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