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A review by _witchpony
La princesa de hielo by Camilla Läckberg
1.0
I read this book in Spanish.
It took me forever to write this review, because this book was so terrible that I couldn't force myself to do it. Calling this book "a pain in the ass" would be the understatement of the century.
This book tells the story of Erica, a writer, who, after losing her parents in an accident, has to move to her old house to figure it out what to do with the belongings of the deceased. In the small town where she grew up a murder happens, the dead is Alex, Erica's childhood friend and she is the one who discovers the body.
I don't even know where to start with everything that is wrong with this book.
The delicate subjects that the book deals with, it tackles them in such a poor and bland way, with no empathy. By the way, this book needs a lot of trigger warnings for the topics it addresses: domestic violence, child rape, alcoholism and substance abuse, sex, abortion, etc. (Leaving aside that it is a novel with a murder, it does not seem to me that the author gives it the necessary importance). There is also the issue of how this book treats weight and people's eating habits and I say, maybe at the time all that could have made some sense, but in 2021 it did not, so I can assure you that this book did not age well at all.
The word “breasts” is repeated so many times that I wanted someone to take pity on me and tear out my eyes.
There are only two types of men in this book: the very bad bad guys and the very good guys; they have no more depth, no more purpose than to make their life revolve around female characters.
The murderer, because there is a murderer, although this story seems more like a romance (and sex) novel where by chance the love interest of the protagonist (purely by coincidence) is the policeman who leads the murder case. Anyway, the killer is almost caricature, even the Scooby-Doo villains have more depth than the killer in this novel.
The way the author gives us "clues" is incredibly stupid and maddening. Because she does not reveal to you what the protagonist or her love interest found until you forget that they had found it in the first place. As a law student, I can assure you that all the evidence found in the case would be discarded by both the public prosecutor and the judge because of the unprofessional way in which it is treated (wear gloves and equipment, shit!) And because of the very unprofessional way in which it is found (violating more than one procedural right).
Lastly, and I doubt this is a spoiler, but just in case: SPOILER ALERT! If your childhood friend has just died, the first thing that comes to mind is to write a novel about her life and how she was murdered? How stupid does the main character have to be?
Needless to say, I hated this book with all my soul.
It took me forever to write this review, because this book was so terrible that I couldn't force myself to do it. Calling this book "a pain in the ass" would be the understatement of the century.
This book tells the story of Erica, a writer, who, after losing her parents in an accident, has to move to her old house to figure it out what to do with the belongings of the deceased. In the small town where she grew up a murder happens, the dead is Alex, Erica's childhood friend and she is the one who discovers the body.
I don't even know where to start with everything that is wrong with this book.
The delicate subjects that the book deals with, it tackles them in such a poor and bland way, with no empathy. By the way, this book needs a lot of trigger warnings for the topics it addresses: domestic violence, child rape, alcoholism and substance abuse, sex, abortion, etc. (Leaving aside that it is a novel with a murder, it does not seem to me that the author gives it the necessary importance). There is also the issue of how this book treats weight and people's eating habits and I say, maybe at the time all that could have made some sense, but in 2021 it did not, so I can assure you that this book did not age well at all.
The word “breasts” is repeated so many times that I wanted someone to take pity on me and tear out my eyes.
There are only two types of men in this book: the very bad bad guys and the very good guys; they have no more depth, no more purpose than to make their life revolve around female characters.
The murderer, because there is a murderer, although this story seems more like a romance (and sex) novel where by chance the love interest of the protagonist (purely by coincidence) is the policeman who leads the murder case. Anyway, the killer is almost caricature, even the Scooby-Doo villains have more depth than the killer in this novel.
The way the author gives us "clues" is incredibly stupid and maddening. Because she does not reveal to you what the protagonist or her love interest found until you forget that they had found it in the first place. As a law student, I can assure you that all the evidence found in the case would be discarded by both the public prosecutor and the judge because of the unprofessional way in which it is treated (wear gloves and equipment, shit!) And because of the very unprofessional way in which it is found (violating more than one procedural right).
Lastly, and I doubt this is a spoiler, but just in case: SPOILER ALERT! If your childhood friend has just died, the first thing that comes to mind is to write a novel about her life and how she was murdered? How stupid does the main character have to be?
Needless to say, I hated this book with all my soul.