The events in the book are cinematic, which is not surprising since the author also writes screenplays. It interestingly depicts the life of a small town located on the Swedish-Finnish-Russian border, almost coming to life, where we, the inhabitants of the town, are only temporary actors.
Violence caused by drugs breaks into this quiet world in this small town. Sometimes this violence seemed a little too much to me, even compared to the Russian mafia, it was more like the cartel wars in Mexico. Of course, a film is exciting and spectacular when there are as many bloody murders as possible, but I’d rather have another twist appear in the story instead, or the author explains the connection between Hannah and Thomas better. Which didn’t seem real to me anyway, I find it impossible for spouses to behave like this in reality, to feel like each other. But these excuses don’t detract from the value of the book, it was like watching an exciting action movie, I got excited for the characters, even the assassin, I cheered for her to escape and for everything to be good and beautiful by the end of the book. Of course, that’s not the real world, and that’s why this story couldn’t end that way either. But it didn’t even have to end definitively, as maybe this is also the first part of a series, and we can look forward to the new book with Hannah in the lead role soon.
Thanks to Edelweiss and Laurie Mularchuk (Harlequin Sales) for the opportunity to read and comment on the book before it was released.
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