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Dead Of Summer (2007)

by Mari Jungstedt(Favorite Author)

3.53 of 5 Votes: 2

languge

English

genre

Fiction

publisher

Stockholm Text

series

Anders Knutas

review 1: Dva a pol hviezdicky. Kniha zacala opat celkom slubne, zdalo sa, ze nastala mensia zmena - Anders Knutas je so zenou a detmi na dovolenke v Dansku, premysla o svojom manzelstve, z ktoreho sa vytratila vasen, a na ostrove Faro sa schyluje k vrazde. Vysetrovania sa ujima jeho trochu zahadna kolegyna a teraz uz aj zastupkyna Karin Jacobssonova, jedna z najzaujimavejsich a najnedocenenejsich postav tejto kniznej serie. Opat je tu televizny reporter Johan a jeho ufnukana, hystericka priatelka Emma, ktora ho uz zase nechce, ale vlastne chce, ona vlastne nevie... ale ide ju roztrhnut od ziarlivosti, ked ho vidi v spolocnosti druhej. Odpustila by som Jungstedt jej trochu chabe zapletky a mozno i vyslovene odflaknute konce, ale tato telenovela vlecuca sa celou seriou ako slimacia t... moreragedia v styroch dejstvach, to je na mna prilis. I tentoraz sa atmosfera buduje asi na 90% stranok, takze na poriadny zaver neostava cas alebo chut. Najbrutalnejsie su jej "dovysvetlenia" v epilogoch - Jungstedt nie je schopna utkat osudy svojich hrdinov tak, aby to citatel pochopil uz v priebehu citania. Nie, namiesto toho si pocka na koniec a dopise si kapitolku "Tak, a toto by ste este mali vediet..." Seriu odporucam len velmi znudenym "detektivkarom" alebo milovnikom "zenskych romanov" s trochu "drsnejsou" zapletkou.
review 2: 5th in the series. Love the descriptions and portrayal of Gotland (and, in this book, another island off its coast), and I like some of the characters who recur (although I do find Emma really irritating and her behaviour not wholly believable). Two unexplained and shocking murders in the present clearly have a link to an event in the past(1985), but the details are hard to work out and I didn't guess the murderer (although there was a clue early on). There is a surprising twist at the end. less

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