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Sér Grefur Gröf (2006)

by Yrsa Sigurðardóttir(Favorite Author)

3.71 of 5 Votes: 5

languge

English

genre

Mystery & Thriller

publisher

Veröld

series

Þóra Guðmundsdóttir

review 1: Mixed reaction. I am not at all taken with the attorney heroine, who is more unappealing than she is engaging. She obstructs justice as flippantly as she has sex with her latest squeeze, both measuring the same on the excitement scale as a walk to the corner store. I was tempted on more than a few occasions to quit the book for good, but the underlying mystery is moderately interesting and I wanted to see how the author brought everything together in the end. Haven't decided whether I'll continue reading this author's books. I thought that her first book ("Last Rituals") was a little better.
review 2: For a story that starts with a child's fear for not being able to do as her mother had asked, I would say that this story had a very different ending. Forget th... moree cries of babies heard at night, stench from a dead whale and two murders- but instead focus on the family history explored. I enjoyed reading every word of this story because Thora (the lawyer) was on a quest to solve a family history. It started out as a story where everyone was a murder suspect and slowly trickled down to the perpetrators. I loved the detail and dialogue between Thora and Matthew. I didn't take to detective Thorolfur- because he came off as very stubborn, ungrateful and less cooperative whenever Thora shared her suspicions about the cases with him. It's a dark icy story and the first by an Icelandic writer I've read. less

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