Books by Linn Ullmann
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review 1: Meh. There were intriguing parts of this book and the characters were all fleshed out and their problems seemed genuine and interesting (particularly the complexity of Siri and Jon's marriage). And the plot was strong enough to pull me along. But I never really connected to th...
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review 1: The characters and the plot line were complex. All the characters were well fleshed out, but unlikeable. I found the author's use of different perspectives and shifting timelines, not as an over-used literary gimmick, but rather as a way to keep my interest and to heighten my u...
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review 1: I agree w/ the critic that said this is Nordic noir w/o the mystery. Fairly early on we are given the whodunnit, the to whodunnit and the why, so the rest of the book is a psychological dissection of the main characters - awfully similar to the films of the author's father, Ingm...
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review 1: I wanted more to happen in this book. There was not one character that acted in a way that made sense. The couple, their children, the grandmother, the grandmother's caregiver, the young neighborhood boy and the young nanny/murder victim all were interesting but not compelling....
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review 1: I've read four novels by Linn Ullmann and I've enjoyed and admired them all. The Cold Song begins with the discovery by three boys of a body buried in the woods near a small vacation town on the coast of Norway. The boys themselves are not exactly innocents and the woods are suit...