freshlybrewedbookreviews: The Ice Princess: A Novel by Camilla Läckberg I feel so lackluster about this book that it’s not even worth posting a review. Maybe I would have been shocked to discover who the murderer was, if I’d had a chance to solve the mystery, but I didn’t. The characters often find important clues that we aren’t allowed to see (for example, finding a piece of paper with something important written on it, which we’re told, but we don’t know what it says). For me, that’s a fail on the writer’s account. When I have access to the information, and the opportunity to try to piece together the evidence that I’m given, I am blown away if I haven’t guessed the outcome. This novel, I didn’t care who the killer was, because I had no leads, so it could have been anyone and I wouldn’t have been surprised, because I wasn’t lead to suspect anyone.  There were other issues here that made the novel not work at all: the characters weren’t believable or particularly likable, one of the characters was suffering from domestic abuse but her sister did nothing, there was a love story that wasn’t affecting at all…if you’re looking for a great foreign thriller writer, try Jo Nesbo.

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The Ice Princess: A Novel by Camilla Läckberg

I feel so lackluster about this book that it’s not even worth posting a review. Maybe I would have been shocked to discover who the murderer was, if I’d had a chance to solve the mystery, but I didn’t. The characters often find important clues that we aren’t allowed to see (for example, finding a piece of paper with something important written on it, which we’re told, but we don’t know what it says). For me, that’s a fail on the writer’s account. When I have access to the information, and the opportunity to try to piece together the evidence that I’m given, I am blown away if I haven’t guessed the outcome. This novel, I didn’t care who the killer was, because I had no leads, so it could have been anyone and I wouldn’t have been surprised, because I wasn’t lead to suspect anyone. 

There were other issues here that made the novel not work at all: the characters weren’t believable or particularly likable, one of the characters was suffering from domestic abuse but her sister did nothing, there was a love story that wasn’t affecting at all…if you’re looking for a great foreign thriller writer, try Jo Nesbo.