A review by kirkw1972
The Girl Without Skin by Mads Peder Nordbo
3.0
I liked this. I could have done with a trigger warning as some of the descriptions of animal killing and skinning is quite graphic but I guess I also didn't know much about Greenland to know the practises are still in place.
It's quite fast paced and flips between Matthews search to solve the mystery now and Jakob's attempts in 1973. I didn't like reading tales of child abuse but the way it is written makes perfect sense of the times with women and children being dismissed and the careers of men being protected. In the 'now' element of the book we have more enlightened views. I did like the relationship between Matthew and Tupaarnaq. So often people meet in a story and romance and sex come into it. It made a nice change to see something more innocent between these two.
Overall I liked it enough that I'll probably pick up some more of the authors work.
It's quite fast paced and flips between Matthews search to solve the mystery now and Jakob's attempts in 1973. I didn't like reading tales of child abuse but the way it is written makes perfect sense of the times with women and children being dismissed and the careers of men being protected. In the 'now' element of the book we have more enlightened views. I did like the relationship between Matthew and Tupaarnaq. So often people meet in a story and romance and sex come into it. It made a nice change to see something more innocent between these two.
Overall I liked it enough that I'll probably pick up some more of the authors work.