#Yrsa Sigurdardottir

[sixofravens-reads]

Next read! Been reading mainly SFF all year and I think I'm getting burnt out on it, so I decided to give this Icelandic crime novel a try.

[patricia-von-arundel]

The books currently looking beseechingly up at me from my cart:

Within These Walls (Ania Ahlborn)

A Choir of Ill Children (Tom Piccirilli)

Shipwrecks (Akira Yoshimura)

Frankenstein in Baghdad (Ahmed Saadawi)

Nazareth Hill (Ramsey Campbell)

Between Two Fires (Christopher Buehlman) (this may or may not have been one of the reasons I ranted about medieval horror always being Black Death...) (but I still desperately want to read it!)

The House Next Door (Anne Rivers Siddon)

The Dangers of Smoking in Bed (Mariana Enriquez)

Mouthful of Birds (Samanta Schweblin)

Johnny Got His Gun (Dalton Trumbo)

Flowers of Mold (Ha Seong-Nan)

I Remember You (Yrsa Sigurdardottir)

Tender is the Flesh (Agustina Bazterrica)

Eileen (Ottessa Moshfegh)

The Shapeshifters (Stepan Spjut)

Hex (Thomas Olde Heuvelt)

The Corpse Exhibition (Hassan Blasim)

Her Body and Other Parties (Carmen Maria Machado)

The Last One (Alexandra Oliva)

The Twenty Days of Turin (Giorgio De Maria)

The Ancestor (Danielle Trussoni)

The Girl Next Door (Jack Ketchum)

Pretty Girls (Karin Slaughter)

Get in Trouble (Kelly Link)

Moon of the Crusted Snow (Waubgeshig Rice)

I Have a Bad Feeling About This (Jeff Strand)

The Hunger (Alma Katsu)

Apartment 16 (Adam Nevill)

The only authors on the list I've read are Adam Nevill, Jack Ketchum, and Ramsey Campbell. Someone please tell me half of these are just awful and not even worth considering? 😅

I'm trying to expand my reading beyond the obvious and the well-known, especially looking towards queer authors, women, and authors in translation (especially those from languages/cultures not as frequently encountered in the genre in English). For the last, I'm also considering the two volumes of The Valancourt Book of World Horror Stories.

I'm going to starve.

Or I can try to figure out how to make a book stew...

[xionisgr]

ISBN: 978-618-03-4024-2 Συγγραφέας: Yrsa Sigurdardottir Εκδότης: Μετα��χμιο Σειρά: Επιθεωρητής Χούλνταρ και ψυχολόγος Φρέιγια Σελίδες: 528 Ημερομηνία Έκδοσης: 2024-05-16 Διαστάσεις: 21x14 Εξώφυλλο: Μαλακό εξώφυλλο

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ISBN: 978-618-03-4024-2 Συγγραφέας: Yrsa Sigurdardottir Εκδότης: Μεταίχμιο Σειρά: Επιθεωρητής Χούλνταρ και ψυχολόγος Φρέιγια Σελίδες: 528 Ημερομηνία Έκδοσης: 2024-05-16 Διαστάσεις: 21x14 Εξώφυλλο: Μαλακό εξώφυλλο

[lecturedesam]

La poupée

  Auteur : Yrsa Sigurdardottir Titre : La poupée Date de parution : 6 septembre 2023 – Edition Actes Sud EAN : 9782330181307 – 395 pages   Yrsa Sigurðardóttir est titulaire d’une licence en ingénierie civile de l’université d’Islande ainsi que d’une maîtrise dans le même domaine, obtenue en 1997 à l’université Concordia de Montréal. Elle exerce son métier d’ingénieur civile en Islande…

[jenmedsbookreviews]

The Doll by Yrsa Sigurdardottir

Today I'm sharing my thoughts on The Doll by Yrsa Sigurdardottir, the latest book in the Freyja and Huldar series. @YrsaSig @HodderBooks

I absolutely love the Children’s House series by Yrsa Sigurdardottir and it’s always on my automatic order list as soon as I see a new title available. It was an absolute delight to receive the rather creepy postcard and proof from publisher Hodder & Stoughton earlier this year and it made me all the more excited to read and review the book. Here’s what it’s all about: (more…)

[nevinslibrary]

Mystery/Thriller Monday

A young girl, seven years old, witnesses her Mom’s murder. But, since she’s seven the detective in charge of the case, Detective Huldar, and a child psychologist, Freyja, they need to not only find out what she knows, but also take care of her as well. Neither of the main characters are too happy that this child, Margaret, is in their care. And, they both have issues that make the book quite a ride.

It’s sort of a mystery, but also very much a thriller as well. And, when I read this, for the first time in a while, I didn’t want to throw the ‘Nordic fiction’ at a wall halfway through. It was an interesting read.

You may like this book If you Liked: Verses for the Dead by Douglas J. Preston, The Fallen Angel by Daniel Silva, or Velocity by Dean R. Koontz

The Legacy by Yrsa Sigurðardóttir

[soikka80]

Reading

[nnovakk]

🎃🔮In this spooky month of the year I decided to reread my favorite and also the spookiest book, so I drew my favorite ghost Bernódus in one of The Major Arcana tarot cards.🔮🎃

Said book is I remember you or Ég man þig by Yrsa Sigurðardóttir

[boekbabbel]

Een uitgelezen zomer #2: spannende boeken

Ik las deze zomer heel wat spannende boeken. Een overzicht.

Ik las deze zomer heel veel prenten- en jeugdboeken, maar bleef ook trouw aan mijn eerste liefde: thrillers. Ik kwam heel wat oude bekenden tegen, maar leerde ook nieuwe auteurs en personages kennen. Ook voor young adults zijn ondertussen heel wat goede thrillers op de markt. (more…)

[miriamvowen]

The Commandments by Oskar Gudmundsson

The Commandments by Oskar Gudmundsson

It was a pleasure to receive The Commandments by Icelandic author Oskar Gudmundsson. Furthermore it made me happy that newly established publisher Corylus Books is continuing to support crime fiction out of Iceland (as well as other under represented countries such as Romania). I knew Oskar’s name because he is on the organising committee for Iceland Noir, Iceland’s crime fiction festival and I…

[sixofravens-reads]

February Wrap-Up!

This wasn't such a good reading month, at least not until the 27th when I went to the bookstore, bought some comics and manga, and read 2 of them immediately. Here's hoping March is better!

Read:

Woodsqueer - Gretchen Legler (started in January)

Foundryside - Robert Jackson Bennett (started in January)

Faery! - edited by Terri Windling

The Adventure Zone: The Eleventh Hour - the McElroys & Carey Pietsch

Black or White vol 1 - Sachimo

DNF

Ambergris - Jeff Vandermeer

My Soul to Take - Yrsa Sigurdardottir

Currently Reading

Through a Brazen Mirror - Delia Sherman

[llpodcast]

Sigurdardottir’s new novel, The Doll was something I wasn’t expecting.  I was looking for one of those horror novels about a creepy doll and I got so much more and it was well worth the read.

 The Doll is full of surprises that threw me off delightfully.  From the opening pages, I felt ok, here we go and then it twists and turns into a mystery novel that really wowed me from the first.  The narrative and storytelling are superb and the landscape of Iceland is a wonder to behold.  This is not a straight forward road but a twisty turning pathway that takes the reader by the hand and with the shocking and surprising conclusion simply floors the reader into thinking, what have I just read and where has this writer been all my life.

 The characters are strongly written and there are some surprise deaths that I wasn’t quite expecting. The police and social care workers are wonderfully drawn out and the misplaced children are very well described. Sigurdardottir keeps her characters firmly within reality and whilst the professional team are bogged down with policy and procedure, you can tell that the author did extensive background work that adds a natural reality to the work.

 The plot is well constructed and as stated above, the author is able to pull off the many twist and turns and red herrings to keep the reader on their toes.  This is not an easy task and she does this winningly.

 Overall, this is a jaw dropping, intense, mystery bound book that is firmly placed within the horror, mystery and thriller subgenres that make this is a winning combination.  The only bad side is that on a marketing side that the book would make one think that it is getting a horror Annabelle type story when in fact this book is a whole lot more.  Sigurdardottir’s other work will make it across the world because if this is anything to go by, this one is someone to keep an eye on. Iceland fiction is the world’s gain. Excellent.

[jolieeason]

The Reckoning (Children's House: Book 2) by Yrsa Siguroardottir

The Reckoning (Children’s House: Book 2) by Yrsa Siguroardottir

3.5 Stars

Date of publication: February 12, 2019

Publisher: St. Martin’s Press, Minotaur Books

Genre: Mystery, Thriller

Series: Children’s House

DNA—Book 1

Throttling—Book 2 (I believe this is also The Reckoning. Google translate didn’t do a great job  translating from Icelandic to English on Goodreads)

Absolution—Book 3

Where you can find The Reckoning: Amazon | Barnes…

[fjordfolk]

Tagged by: @campfirecanines (thank you 🥺)

Favorite color: greens but the "if i stumble on the moor I'll be lost to eternity" kind of green. you know?

Currently reading: i have. i think. the haunting of hill house and a yrsa sigurdardottir novel sitting around plus ronan farrow's catch and kill (no immediate plans to finish either)

Last song: heart of hickory by major parkinson

Last series: watched the witcher s2 at some point earlier this year. or last year. may have been this year. maybe.

Last movie: i have no god damn clue. it was probably a horror movie. it was probably bad.

Sweet/savory/spicy: as my good friend would say, anything feeds the pig.

Currently working on: basic condition i guess, and building troja for backpacking. otherwise i just wake up every morning praying that troj has magically acquired manners and sparta is still a dog.

tagging maybe @sheplies? i have no idea who's done this now

[jenmedsbookreviews]

The Fallout by Yrsa Sigurdardottir

Today I am delighted to share my thoughts on The Fallout, the latest book in the Children's House series from Yrsa Sigurdardottir. @YrsaSig @HodderBooks @HodderFiction #booktwitter #booktwt

Today I am delighted to share my thoughts on The Fallout, part of the Children’s House series by Yrsa Sigurdardottir. I have loved reading this series and getting to know Huldar and Freyja. Thanks to publisher Hodder & Stoughton for the advance copy of the book via Netgalley. Here’s what it’s all about: Source: NetgalleyRelease Date: 12 May 2022Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton (more…)