The Ice Princess

Was just OK. Pace was very slow. I will be reading the 2nd in the series, so hopefully it improves.

I found the story line to be really interesting, but certain features of the author's writing style didn't sit quite right with me.

4.5*
I really liked this first book. We follow multiple points of view, so in the beginning there are parts where we don't know who is the character that is the point of the view.
There were two things that frustated me. The first one was keeping from us what the Erica and Patrik discovered, one example of this was when Erica redialled a number to discover who the last call was made to. And she is surprised to who the voicemail belongs to, but we don't learn who it is until later in the book.
The second thing, was the “romance”, which I didn't feel like was a romance at all. Erica and Patrik have two dinners and didn't talk for very long and then they have a lot of sex (not explicit) and then suddenly, it is like they feel like they were made to be and they feel perfect for each other. I though it was very rushed and forced, like she wanted to settle then as a couple in the first book.

This is my first foray into Nordic noir. I think I may have tried to read The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, I honestly don't remember. I'm not a big mystery reader-in any setting. So, this one was out of the reading bubble for me and I really liked it. I mean, she dropped 2 major plot points (house and Anna's husband), and it was a little too romance-y for me. Not to mention I learned nothing about Sweden except that one can get UTI's from sitting on cold things or being in cold houses. Good to know! Still, I sound like I didn't like it, and that's not the case. I found myself wishing I didn't have to put it down and was counting the minutes until I could get home and read the last 40 pages.

So! In the future, more Nordic Noir, including the sequel to this one as it will also fill a PopSugar RC 18 challenge: read the next book in a series you started.