Right now, I only read books that are part of shared reading to come, what prevents me from publishing reviews now ... Frustrating! So to show you that I do forget it, I give you a review I posted on the blog Jess . It is time that I repatriated here, especially as I will report at one time or another of the novels that follow it ...
Synopsis:
Erica Falck, Swedish writer of thirty-five years, returns in the peaceful village where she grew up to settle the estate of his deceased parents brutally. During her stay, she stumbles upon the body of her childhood friend Alexandra, slashed wrists in the bathtub, taking in the ice. Mingled with the investigation in spite of herself, she quickly convinced that Alexandra did not suicide. While managing a personal situation complicated by the loss of his parents, the reunion with his past and a love story emerging, Erica tries to unravel the mysteries of the life of Alexandra. What is the dark secret that her friend seemed cut from the outside world? Whence came his unexpected relationship with an artist's village alcoholic? Who was his unknown lover? And of course: why was killed this young woman so perfect?
My opinion: After
Millennium 1: men who dislike women , here again a Swedish detective novel. The latter, which according to the publisher has been very successful in his country, is a fairly good representative of the genre. The story is well constructed, expanding the mystery over the pages and revealing the keys to the plot in dribs and drabs, so keep an element of surprise until the very end. The main characters are sympathetic, their relatively simple and well described, and the secondary characters are sufficiently developed to give them a consistency in the story. The setting, a small village by the sea, provides a slightly intimate charm that adds to the whole.
Regarding the style, along with some red in the translation, it seemed a bit flat, nothing too disturbing, but nothing exceptional either. If the author of Millennium was able to pass up a French narrative style full of personal details innocuous here Camilla Läckberg simply put language in the service of history. But as the story is worth it by itself, it's not really a problem.
Still, it lacks this thriller a little something to be at the height of contemporary novels that I have been most marked. The characters do not have the glamor of Lisbeth Salander created by Stieg Larsson or the Commissioner Adamsberg Fred Vargas, the plot lacks the vitality to keep us in suspense on each line as the best novels of Dan Brown; the mystery is not obscure enough to tempt us to go take a look guilty to the last pages, provided that knew so well create Agatha Christie. If reading this nice little romance can have a good time, I had no difficulty in filing for a few days to devote myself to other activities more important - something I have not always done ...
In summary, this is not the discovery of the century, but a work sympathetic to bed without fuss. I would give him, say, a 7 / 10 , and I do not hesitate to advise you. It seems that the author wrote four crime novels featuring the same heroine, I plan to get their hands on the occasion!
Synopsis: Erica Falck, Swedish writer of thirty-five years, returns in the peaceful village where she grew up to settle the estate of his deceased parents brutally. During her stay, she stumbles upon the body of her childhood friend Alexandra, slashed wrists in the bathtub, taking in the ice. Mingled with the investigation in spite of herself, she quickly convinced that Alexandra did not suicide. While managing a personal situation complicated by the loss of his parents, the reunion with his past and a love story emerging, Erica tries to unravel the mysteries of the life of Alexandra. What is the dark secret that her friend seemed cut from the outside world? Whence came his unexpected relationship with an artist's village alcoholic? Who was his unknown lover? And of course: why was killed this young woman so perfect?
My opinion: After
Millennium 1: men who dislike women , here again a Swedish detective novel. The latter, which according to the publisher has been very successful in his country, is a fairly good representative of the genre. The story is well constructed, expanding the mystery over the pages and revealing the keys to the plot in dribs and drabs, so keep an element of surprise until the very end. The main characters are sympathetic, their relatively simple and well described, and the secondary characters are sufficiently developed to give them a consistency in the story. The setting, a small village by the sea, provides a slightly intimate charm that adds to the whole.
Regarding the style, along with some red in the translation, it seemed a bit flat, nothing too disturbing, but nothing exceptional either. If the author of Millennium was able to pass up a French narrative style full of personal details innocuous here Camilla Läckberg simply put language in the service of history. But as the story is worth it by itself, it's not really a problem.
Still, it lacks this thriller a little something to be at the height of contemporary novels that I have been most marked. The characters do not have the glamor of Lisbeth Salander created by Stieg Larsson or the Commissioner Adamsberg Fred Vargas, the plot lacks the vitality to keep us in suspense on each line as the best novels of Dan Brown; the mystery is not obscure enough to tempt us to go take a look guilty to the last pages, provided that knew so well create Agatha Christie. If reading this nice little romance can have a good time, I had no difficulty in filing for a few days to devote myself to other activities more important - something I have not always done ...
In summary, this is not the discovery of the century, but a work sympathetic to bed without fuss. I would give him, say, a 7 / 10 , and I do not hesitate to advise you. It seems that the author wrote four crime novels featuring the same heroine, I plan to get their hands on the occasion!
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