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O Boneco De Neve (2013)

by Jo Nesbø(Favorite Author)

3.99 of 5 Votes: 3

languge

English

genre

Mystery & Thriller

publisher

DOM QUIXOTE

series

Harry Hole

review 1: This is a tough book to like. Come to that, I find that true of Norwegian Jo Nesbø as a writer but he is good at plotting and can keep me reading to the bitter end. The Snowman is the first book by Nesbø that I have read. Apart from some confusingly abrupt scene changes, the story moves us through the possible suspects and throws up a couple of good red herrings, one of which I later had to cough up! The anti-hero hero Harry Hole is a reprobate with an idiosyncratic ethical sense that skirts legalities in the interest of solving cases that no one else can seem to solve. Alternately taciturn and volubly demanding, Hole has no patience with those who will settle for an easy but wrong answer if it serves their personal ambition. Hole has no ambition -except to get it right.... more Error offends him; it wastes time and resources both of which are in short supply in Harry's life. Permanently in "recovery", Hole's alcoholism waxes and wanes as his fortunes do - in favour one week and out the next. There is only one intoxicant that can bring him back from an alcoholic haze and that is the thrill of unveiling the killer. Hole is not very likeable but he is admirable in his way and I could see someone like Clive Owen doing justice to Hole in a BBC treatment of Nesbø's thrillers. Suffice to say that I overcame my initial reluctance based on the horrors of The Snowman and picked up a copy of The Leopard. I very nearly didn't get through the first five pages so utterly dastardly is the murderer Nesbø has dreamed up this time! At least, I think he dreamed up this killer...Watch this space...
review 2: The author is excellent at suspense in the last quarter of the book. It is a bit of a slow start with too many characters and clues and red herrings. Too complex. I never did figure out why the mould expert kept coming into Harry's apartment and working on the mould infection, and he had the last paragraph in the book. I guess he was just thrown in to keep me guessing?I would have enjoyed the story more if it were easier to connect the sub-plots. I kept feeling I needed to keep a notebook to help me understand it, there were too many shallow characters I never really got to know. A family was barely introduced, then on to a snowman and a murder and then on to another family and another snowman and another murder. It was not grounded well, it moved too fast.About the middle of the book I gave up on keeping track of the characters and just went along for the ride. Then I got caught up in the suspense toward the end of the book and liked it. less

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