A review by shivani_maurya
The Snowman by Jo Nesbø
3.0
What is it about the women dropping dead that just lures the readers in? Somehow, when the synopsis describes dead women found in outrageous circumstances, my curiosity gets peaked. Is it that they are more relatable in some sense? Reading about the mutilations, is it the knowledge we have of our bodies and its capability to feel pain that fuels the imagination? Will I be just as curious if a book boasted of bodies of men turning up, sans some part or arranged ritualistically? Would it be interesting if the perpetrator was a women offing those men? Or another man killer? I don't know. But what I do know is that I have yet to come across a crime novel about a serial killer who has it out for just men. So it's a little on the nose but, women take the cake in this one as well.
This book was an odd choice for me. It is not the first of the series. I picked it just coz I had it on my kindle since god knows when. And to be honest I didn't like it off the bat. At times there were several threads inside a chapter. The transition is seamless. Which can be annoying if one has to infer two dialogues in, that the place and characters have changed. Took me some time to get used to this "quirk". The story is pretty much standard. A maniac is on the loose, kidnapping and killing women, leaving behind a snowman to mark his "visit". The fun is in chasing him and discovering his motive page by page. Speculations will fly and should, that's kind of the point of sticking with this book.
This book is melting pot of clues, suspects, dead-ends and surprises. A bit anti-climatic at times. But still it redeemed itself from being a total bore. Should you read it? Answer : ¯\_(^_^)_/¯ it wouldn't be a total disappointment. Just more of the same maybe.
This book was an odd choice for me. It is not the first of the series. I picked it just coz I had it on my kindle since god knows when. And to be honest I didn't like it off the bat. At times there were several threads inside a chapter. The transition is seamless. Which can be annoying if one has to infer two dialogues in, that the place and characters have changed. Took me some time to get used to this "quirk". The story is pretty much standard. A maniac is on the loose, kidnapping and killing women, leaving behind a snowman to mark his "visit". The fun is in chasing him and discovering his motive page by page. Speculations will fly and should, that's kind of the point of sticking with this book.
This book is melting pot of clues, suspects, dead-ends and surprises. A bit anti-climatic at times. But still it redeemed itself from being a total bore. Should you read it? Answer : ¯\_(^_^)_/¯ it wouldn't be a total disappointment. Just more of the same maybe.