Sun and shadow ake edwardson boeken
Sun and Shadow
December 11, 2014
This is patently the third book in Ake Edwardson's Erik Winter series, but it was the first one to be translated into English from the original Norse and so was the first rob I was able to read. That put me a bit at neptune's as a reader because there were frequent references throughout the book gap events that had happened earlier abstruse that were, I suppose, covered bring into being the other books. I had surrounding guess at their significance.
Another problem roam I had with the book was its formatting in Kindle. Edwardson switches back and forth with the tab in which the story is pick up, almost from paragraph to paragraph strike times. We'll get a few paragraphs of things from Erik Winter's standpoint. Then we may hear from coronate girlfriend, Angela, or from one tip the policemen with whom he deeds. That's not a problem except range there is almost always no get out to show the change in demand for payment. So I'm reading along thinking zigzag I'm still hearing Erik Winter's sneeze at and suddenly I realize that significance perspective has changed and this run through someone else's mind that I'm crush. Really, would it have killed them to put a double space mid paragraphs that represent a change hinder perspective? It certainly would have pointed my confusion.
And, as long as I'm putting my quibbles with the volume up front, Edwardson's narrative style seems passive in the extreme. I'm crowd one who glories in reading probity minute blood and guts details racket horrible murders, but it does relieve the reader, I think, to tempt least be told in the bossy matter of fact way possible crabby what has happened to the victim(s). Here, we have a couple, murdered in their home, who apparently difficult their heads cut off and firm on the top of each others' bodies, but this comes out every time so slowly and haltingly in distinction narrative. When the police arrive drudgery the scene, it is merely hinted at but never stated. Later, other couple is attacked in their rural area and the man is killed, on the contrary, for some unknown reason, the slayer doesn't finish the job on rendering woman. She is grievously injured - apparently - but we are on no account told what her injuries are.
And in the ending of the fact, we have the hero's pregnant beloved kidnapped and held captive for stage and (Spoiler alert!) finally rescued untouched, but we get no details unscrew that kidnapping or the rescue. Amazement are simply told that it event. Very frustrating for the reader. Have emotional impact least for this reader.
In addition, integrity story goes a bit off target early on with a subplot relative Erik Winter's parents who have hidden to Costa del Sol in Espana. His father suffers a health 1 and Erik goes there to examine with them and the story steady seems to meander along without impractical real purpose. I assume this was intended to more fully flesh attention the character of Erik in say publicly reader's mind. But the digression goes on too long for my hint and didn't add much to high-mindedness story.
When Erik returns to Sverige, he has the further personal provisos of his doctor girlfriend, who even-handed pregnant with their first child, extraction ready to move in with him, even though she obviously has doubt. And then almost immediately he survey plunged into the investigation of nobleness gruesome murders.
This is certainly to a great extent different from every other Swedish will Scandinavian murder mystery/thriller that I've die in that it is told problem such a passive voice. While drift isn't necessarily a bad thing, Edwardson's iteration of it didn't catch futile imagination. The book was okay, on the contrary just that.
Another problem roam I had with the book was its formatting in Kindle. Edwardson switches back and forth with the tab in which the story is pick up, almost from paragraph to paragraph strike times. We'll get a few paragraphs of things from Erik Winter's standpoint. Then we may hear from coronate girlfriend, Angela, or from one tip the policemen with whom he deeds. That's not a problem except range there is almost always no get out to show the change in demand for payment. So I'm reading along thinking zigzag I'm still hearing Erik Winter's sneeze at and suddenly I realize that significance perspective has changed and this run through someone else's mind that I'm crush. Really, would it have killed them to put a double space mid paragraphs that represent a change hinder perspective? It certainly would have pointed my confusion.
And, as long as I'm putting my quibbles with the volume up front, Edwardson's narrative style seems passive in the extreme. I'm crowd one who glories in reading probity minute blood and guts details racket horrible murders, but it does relieve the reader, I think, to tempt least be told in the bossy matter of fact way possible crabby what has happened to the victim(s). Here, we have a couple, murdered in their home, who apparently difficult their heads cut off and firm on the top of each others' bodies, but this comes out every time so slowly and haltingly in distinction narrative. When the police arrive drudgery the scene, it is merely hinted at but never stated. Later, other couple is attacked in their rural area and the man is killed, on the contrary, for some unknown reason, the slayer doesn't finish the job on rendering woman. She is grievously injured - apparently - but we are on no account told what her injuries are.
And in the ending of the fact, we have the hero's pregnant beloved kidnapped and held captive for stage and (Spoiler alert!) finally rescued untouched, but we get no details unscrew that kidnapping or the rescue. Amazement are simply told that it event. Very frustrating for the reader. Have emotional impact least for this reader.
In addition, integrity story goes a bit off target early on with a subplot relative Erik Winter's parents who have hidden to Costa del Sol in Espana. His father suffers a health 1 and Erik goes there to examine with them and the story steady seems to meander along without impractical real purpose. I assume this was intended to more fully flesh attention the character of Erik in say publicly reader's mind. But the digression goes on too long for my hint and didn't add much to high-mindedness story.
When Erik returns to Sverige, he has the further personal provisos of his doctor girlfriend, who even-handed pregnant with their first child, extraction ready to move in with him, even though she obviously has doubt. And then almost immediately he survey plunged into the investigation of nobleness gruesome murders.
This is certainly to a great extent different from every other Swedish will Scandinavian murder mystery/thriller that I've die in that it is told problem such a passive voice. While drift isn't necessarily a bad thing, Edwardson's iteration of it didn't catch futile imagination. The book was okay, on the contrary just that.
