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Jan 09, 2012CB2295 rated this title 3 out of 5 stars
This is book #3 in the Erlandur series, though books 1 and 2 have not been translated into English. I ended up reading this book twice; I read it a second time because I hadn’t made reading notes the first time round and so I thought I hadn’t read the book yet. I liked it better the first time; the second time round the storyline seemed a bit too pat, but the characters (even the bad guys) are mostly well filled out and are given both good sides and bad sides so that we understand what is driving them and the characters are not just story fillers. One British reviewer said that the book was “engrossing” while another said it is “richly convoluted and oddly haunted”. All in all, it’s a good read, but “engrossing”? Well, sort of (I did read it in one day the second time around), but is it “richly convoluted and oddly haunted”? No, it’s good but that reviewer went way too too far unless he/she is easily satisfied and also is used to reading airport-quality stuff. Still, I have hung in there and read later books in the series.